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Ipomoea batatas
Ipomoea batatas
- Botanic Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Author
- (Linnaeus) Lamarck
- Propagation
- C.E.S.
- Cultivated
- C, for food (tubers) & forage, with cultivars
- Conservation Status
- Least concern
- Offspring
- Ipomoea batatas 'Blackie', Ipomoea batatas 'Bleeding Heart', Ipomoea batatas 'Blushing Hussy', Ipomoea batatas 'Colleen Beauty', Ipomoea batatas 'Taiwan Missy'
Common Names
- Fan shu (Pinyin)
- Sweet Potato
- Sweet Potato Vine
- Yam
- Kuumara
- Lahar Goi (Chepang)
- Aruwa (Danuwar)
- Syuthani (Majhi)
- Sakarkhand (Nepali)
- Chakuhi (Newari)
- Sakar Time (Tamang)
- Apichu (Peru)
- Camote (Yucatan)
- Axi
- Batatas
- Ages
- Umara
- Gumarra
- Gumalla
- Uala or Uwala (Hawaiian)
- Mitha-alu (India)
- Man Dang (Laos)
- Boniato
- Kumara (New Zealand)
- Batata or Camote or Cumara (Spanish)
- Kazun or Kazun-nwe or Man-lyan or Mrauk-oo or Wun-gala-hti or Kyway-u (Myanmar)
- Khoai lang or Lang dãu (Vietnam)
- Kawai ni papalagi (Fiji)
- Guiebraplata
- Patate Douce
- Virginian Potato
- Keledek (Singapore)
- Yedra (Mexico)
- Guiebraplata
- Arabá (Bribrí)
- Deki (Térraba)
- Mistialu (Bangladesh)
- Ula
- Dokui (Mahi)
- Idoki or Èminnin (Holly)
- Loki (Idatcha
- Anii)
- Lokikabo (Anii)
- Forowontèma (Waama)
- Kudoola (Boko)
- Tikòkònuonti or Timanuòti (Otammari)
- Kokotagu or Kotagu or Kudéhun (Bariba)
- Dundutchili (Dendi)
- Patata Blanca or Batatillo or Papa Dulce or Chaco (Spanish)
Geographical Habitats
- Belize
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Venezuela
Natural Habitats
Flowering Times
- Jun-Aug (Mexico)
- All year (Bolivia)
Fruiting Times
Liana, herbaceous annual or perennial, pubescent or glabrous, procumbent, or rarely twining to 4m, younger portion twining, with tuberous edible roots, angular stems usually hairy. 3-lobed or entire dentate mucronate leaves glabrous above, downy beneath to 150mm x 110mm. Cymes to 7 flowers, 40-70mm pink, white to purple flowers with darker centre, white outside purple inside, in axillary cymes, glabrous calyx 6mm long, mucronulate coriaceous sepals, outer sepals to 8mm, inner sepals 12mm long, whitish or reddish corolla to 50mm long. 2-celled flattened capsule brown 5mm long pilose
Has naturalised in some areas.
Root grown commercially for food, tender leaves, roots & shoots as vegetable, medicinal uses, fish bait
Further References
- Sturtevant 1919
- Menninger 1970
- Bailey 1976
- Beckett 1990
- Huxley 1992
- Nicholls 1995
- Viking 1999
- Manandhar 2002
- Mobot
- FOC
- FONZ
- FOH
- NYBG
- Neotrop
- Bodkin
- FB
- JDH
- The Plant List 2
- G. Don
- Fedde
- VOPR
- USNH
- Botanicus
- F Indochine
- FOTA
- Flora Malesiana
- JAA
- GBS
- FOPE
- Kew
- Standley
- KB
- Tanziman Ara
- Traditional Vegetables in Benin