Difference between groundnuts and sweet potatoes is manifested in the varieties, shapes, and growth cycles, groundnuts are leguminous vine plants, their rhizomes present oval, yellowish-white epidermis, white flesh, and the growth cycle has seven months, sweet potatoes are Cyclophyllums herbaceums, their rhizomes present oblong, reddish-red epidermis, yellow flesh, and the growth cycle has four months.

What is the difference between groundnuts and sweet potatoes:

1, different varieties

The varieties of groundnuts and sweet potatoes are different. Groundnut is also known as bean potato, cool potato, back to the dense groundnut, back to the honey potatoes, is a legume, in China's central and southwestern regions, as well as Taiwan and other places are distributed, sweet potato is also known as sweet potatoes, is an annual herb in the family of Cyclamen, is more widely distributed in our country.

2, different shapes

Groundnut and sweet potato shape is different. Groundnut tubers mature oval or conical, the skin is easy to fall off, the color is yellowish-white, the flesh is white, juicy, and sweet potato tubers mature oblong, the skin is not easy to fall off, the color is red, the flesh is yellow.

3, growth cycle

Groundnut and sweet potato growth cycle is different. Groundnuts are planted in April each year and harvested in November, with a growth cycle of seven to eight months, while sweet potatoes are planted in May each year and harvested in September and October, with a growth cycle of four to five months.

Introduction to sweet potatoes

Sweet potatoes are a highly productive and adaptable food crop that is grown in most parts of China. Sweet potato is also known as sweet potato, groundnut, sweet storage, Zhu yam, golden potato, fenzhu, red yam, yucca, yam, sweet potato, sweet potato, sweet potato, sweet potatoes, white potatoes, a goose, moe sweet potato and so on. Sweet potato is an annual herbaceous plant, the underground part presents a round, oval or fusiform tuber.

Sweet potato is native to South America and the Greater and Lesser Antilles, and is widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions around the world. Sweet potato was first planted in the Americas in central Mexico, Colombia, by the Spaniards to the Philippines and other countries planted, sweet potato was first introduced into China in the late Ming Dynasty in the Wanli period, from Yunnan, Guangdong, Fujian, three lines into China, the Ming Dynasty scholar Chen Zhenlong is known as "the father of sweet potato".