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Freshly dug sweet potato plants with tubers Hemerocallis tuber roots. A root tuber, tuberous root or storage root is a modified lateral root, enlarged to function as a storage organ. The enlarged area of the tuber can be produced at the end or middle of a root or involve the entire root.
Sweet potato sprouting "slips" Sweet potato harvest in Nash County, North Carolina, United States. Depending on the cultivar and conditions, tuberous roots mature in two to nine months. With care, early-maturing cultivars can be grown as an annual summer crop in temperate areas, such as the Eastern United States and China.
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In subsistence farming, sweet potatoes are commonly left in the ground and eaten or sold directly following harvest; this is called piecemeal or sequential harvesting. [11] Sweet potatoes are delicate and easily damaged. [3] [4] [8] In-ground storage is used to protect the tubers while reducing the work required to set up storage facilities.
Sweet potatoes: from the vine to casserole. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
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Vigna lanceolata (bush carrot or bush potato) Cassava tuberous roots. Tuberous root. Amorphophallus galbra (yellow lily yam) Conopodium majus (pignut or earthnut) Dioscorea spp. (yams, ube) Dioscorea polystachya (nagaimo, Chinese yam, Korean yam, mountain yam, white ñame) Hornstedtia scottiana (native ginger) Ipomoea batatas (sweet potato)
Oca - specific species of Oxalis, or Wood Sorrel with large edible root. Tobacco Root (species of Velerian, not actual tobacco) Wapato- several species of Sagittaria; Wild Onion- several native species, such as Ramps and Meadow Garlic; Wild Sweet Potato- roots of several native species of Ipomoea, also known as Morning Glory