The difference between cassava and sweet potato is:

1, the difference of the stem

Cassava belongs to the upright shrub, the height of about 1.5 to 3 meters, the stem is smooth and more upright, which contains milky sap, and the root is cylindrical.

Sweet potato length of 0.7 to 7 meters, length across the larger, the appearance of the color of pure green, brown-green, purple-green and all purple these colors, the surface of the distribution of hairy.

2, the difference between the leaves

Cassava leaf shape is almost nearly round, petiole length of about 8 to 22 centimeters.

Sweet potato leaf blade shape is diverse, there are heart, triangle, palm shape and kidney-shaped, petiole length of about 6 to 23 centimeters or so.

3, the flowers are different

The cassava calyx is shorter, about 7 millimeters long, and the color is purplish red with a little white powder frost.

Sweet potato calyx is longer, about 1 cm long, the color is light red or purplish red, the shape of the flower is like a trumpet.