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2. List of sweet potato cultivars - Wikipedia

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   (The variety 'Vardaman' is grown for both.) The first table below lists sweet potato cultivars grown for their edible roots; the second table lists cultivars bred as ornamental vines. In the first table, the Parentage column briefly explains how the sweet potato cultivar was bred. Sweet potato plants with desirable traits are selectively bred ...

3. Ipomoea pandurata - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. Sweet potato - Wikipedia

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   An ornamental sweet potato flower. Ornamental sweet potatoes are popular landscape, container, and bedding plants. Grown as an annual in zones up to USDA hardiness Zone 9, they grow rapidly and spread quickly. Cultivars are available in many colors, such as green, yellow, and purple. [141]

5. List of plants by common name - Wikipedia

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   Sweet potato – Ipomoea batatas; Sweet potato vine – Ipomoea batatas; Swinies – Sonchus oleraceus; Sycamore – Platanus spp. Sycamore (California) – Platanus racemosa; Sycamore (Arizona) – Platanus wrighitii; Sycamore (American) – Platanus occidentalis; Sundari (Bangladesh) – Heritiera fomes; Gewa (Bangladesh) – Excoecaria ...

6. Convolvulaceae - Wikipedia

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   Members of the family are well known as food plants (e.g. sweet potatoes and water spinach), as showy garden plants (e.g. morning glory) and as troublesome weeds (e.g. bindweed (mainly Convolvulus and Calystegia) and dodder), while Humbertia madagascariensis is a medium-sized tree and Ipomoea carnea is an erect shrub. Some parasitic members of ...

7. Vine - Wikipedia

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   Ipomoea batatas (sweet potato) is widely cultivated for its edible, starchy roots. The sap of I. alba (moon vine) sap was used for vulcanization of the latex of Castilla elastica (Panama rubber tree).

8. Ornamental bulbous plant - Wikipedia

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   In South America, the potato (Solanum tuberosum), oca (Oxalis tuberosa) and the sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) were cultivated for thousands of years. [1] Other parts of bulbous plants were also used in cooking. The Minoans of Crete grew and traded saffron (either the wild species Crocus cartwrightianus or the cultivated Crocus sativus).

9. Ipomoea - Wikipedia

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   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 ...