Sweet potato (also known as sweet potato, sweet potato, sweet potato, mushroom and sweet potato) is synonymous with sweet potato, cold potato, cold potato, kudzu vine, kudzu vine, turnip (Records of Chinese Medicinal Plants), grass melon shavings (Luchuan Materia Medica), shage and turnip (Jiangxi Materia Medica Manual).

The northern region mainly refers to sweet potatoes (sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes); In some places in the south, potato is a different variety.