Morning Glory Vine Sweet Potato
They produce an edible storage root which is non toxic and under proper curing conditions converts part of its starches to sugars making it sweet.
Morning glory vine sweet potato. White fleshed and orange fleshed varieties of sweet potato are available. Sweet potato vines are in the same family as edible sweet potatoes ipomoea batatas however these plants are bred for the beauty of their leaves rather than the growth of tubers and the vines from this plant make it look more like a morning glory or clematis than a member of the potato family. All three species fall under the same order. Sep 2 2019 morning glory sweet potato cypress vine.
Both the adult and larvae feed on the leaves of all members of the morning glory family. Department of agriculture plant hardiness zone 8 and as a perennial in zones 9 and 10. Even the irish potato solanum tuberosum is a long distance cousin of the sweet potato and the wild potato vine. The young leaves and shoots are sometimes eaten as greens the sweet potato is commonly thought to be a type of potato solanum tuberosum but does not belong to the nightshade.
Some of the most popular ornamental vine types are documented here but there are many more and new varieties are being developed regularly. Sweet potato vines are available in many countries around the world. The vine grows as an annual in u s. Some are showy vines and others are troublesome weeds.
Types of sweet potato vine. The orange fleshed kind is sometimes called a yam in stores but true yams belong to a different family of plants. Among them are the sweet potato bindweed and moonflower. Morning glory is any of several flowering vines of the convolvulaceae family.
The common morning glory ipomoea purpurea is the showy flowering. This 5 to 7 mm long bright gold beetle is also known as the golden tortoise beetle. Sweet potato blossoms look like morning glory blossoms but are smaller. A very popular member of the morning glory family is the sweet potato ipomoea batatus.
This family includes hundreds of species found in all the warmer parts of the world. They are unrelated to true potatoes which are nightshades. See more ideas about cypress vine morning glory sweet potato. Ipomoea batatas blackie blacky ipomoea batatas blackie blacky source.
Holes in the leaves of morning glory and sweet potato vine may be the first clue your plants are infested with goldbug. The sweet potato or sweetpotato ipomoea batatas is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the bindweed or morning glory family convolvulaceae its large starchy sweet tasting tuberous roots are a root vegetable.