The scientific name of sweet potato, also known as sweet potato and cold potato, belongs to leguminous plants. The skin of sweet potato is light yellow, and its fruit is generally white, which looks like garlic with a big head and is mostly oblate. Local farmers call it sweet potato. Generally, a main root can dig out a sweet potato, but its rhizome is inedible.

The scientific name of sweet potato is sweet potato, which belongs to convolvulaceae. The skin is divided into red and purple. Now what we call sweet potato is what our friends in Northeast China call "sweet potato". Unlike sweet potato, sweet potato can be peeled directly. When cooking, you need to use tools to scrape off the skin, and the scraped skin will be slightly fleshy.

Sweet potato producing area

Originally distributed in tropical America, China, Taiwan Province, Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou; It is cultivated in Hunan and Hubei. Sweet potato likes warm and sunny environment, has the characteristics of strong stress resistance, drought resistance, waterlogging resistance and barren resistance, and is not strict with soil requirements. Sandy loam with deep topsoil, high dryness and medium fertility is suitable.

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