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The flowers, buds, and leaves of the sweet potato, which resemble those of the morning glory Seeds. The plant is a herbaceous perennial vine, bearing alternate triangle-shaped or palmately lobed leaves and medium-sized sympetalous flowers.
Ipomoea pandurata, known as man of the earth, [1] wild potato vine, manroot, wild sweet potato, and wild rhubarb, [2] is a species of herbaceous perennial vine native to North America. It is a twining plant of woodland verges and rough places with heart-shaped leaves and funnel-shaped white flowers with a pinkish throat.
The silverleaf whitefly (Bemisia tabaci, also informally referred to as the sweet potato whitefly) is one of several species of whitefly that are currently important agricultural pests. [1] A review in 2011 concluded that the silverleaf whitefly is actually a species complex containing at least 40 morphologically indistinguishable species.
It is a large and diverse group, with common names including morning glory, water convolvulus or water spinach, sweet potato, bindweed, moonflower, etc. [5] The genus occurs throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the world, and comprises annual and perennial herbaceous plants, lianas, shrubs, and small trees; most of the species are ...
The leaves and starchy, tuberous roots of some species are used as foodstuffs (e.g. sweet potato and water spinach), and the seeds are exploited for their medicinal value as purgatives. Some species contain ergoline alkaloids that are likely responsible for the use of these species as ingredients in psychedelic drugs (e.g. ololiuhqui).
Bedellia somnulentella, morning-glory leaf miner, size: 4.8 mm Sweetpotato leaf with leaf miner larvae, webbing, and frass Sweet potato plant with leaf miner damage External links [ edit ]
The sweet potato was first domesticated in the Americas more than 5,000 years ago. [1] As of 2013, there are approximately 7,000 sweet potato cultivars. People grow sweet potato in many parts of the world, including New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Japan, Hawaii, China, and North America. However, sweet potato is not widely cultivated ...
Alternaria leaf spot and stem blight Alternaria spp. Alternaria storage rot Alternaria spp. Black rot Ceratocystis fimbriata Chalara sp. [anamorph] Blue mold rot Penicillium spp. Cercospora leaf spot Cercospora spp. Phaeoisariopsis bataticola = Cercospora bataticola, C. batatas, C. ipomoeae. Charcoal rot Macrophomina phaseolina: Chlorotic leaf ...