1. Potato and taro are not the same plant;

2. Potato is sweet potato, that is, sweet potato, sweet potato (scientific name: Ipomoeabatatas), also known as sweet potato, sweet potato, potato, sweet potato, Red potato, thread potato, white potato, golden potato, sweet potato, red potato, pillow potato, etc. A common perennial dicotyledonous plant, herbaceous, with slender vines and creeping stems. The roots produce lactic acid through anaerobic respiration. The skin color is white or red, and the flesh is mostly yellow-white, but some are purple. In addition to being used for food, it can also be used to make sugar, wine, and alcohol.

3. Taro is a perennial tuber plant and is often cultivated as an annual crop. The leaves are shield-shaped, with long and fat petioles, green or purple; a shortened stem forms at the base of the plant, which gradually accumulates nutrients and enlarges into a fleshy bulb, called "taro" or "mother taro", which is spherical, oval, oval or massive. wait. Each node of the mother taro has a brain bud, but the axillary buds in the middle and lower nodes are the most active and produce the first tillering, forming a small bulb called a "child taro", and then the "grand child taro" develops from the child taro. Under suitable conditions, great-grandson or great-great-grandson taro can be formed.