Sweet potato is an annual herbaceous plant of the family Cyclophyllaceae, capable of growing more than 2 meters long, with broadly ovate leaf blades, pink, white, mauve or purple corolla, underground tuberous roots, fusiform tubers, and earthy yellow or purplish-red outer skin. Sweet potato is also known as red taro, sweet potato, yam, etc. It likes warmth and is afraid of cold, and when there is enough light, the leaf color is thick, the leaf age is long, the stem is thick, and the yield is high. Sweet potato is rich in starch, vitamins, fiber and other nutrients needed by the human body, but also rich in magnesium, phosphorus, calcium and other mineral elements and linoleic acid, etc., and its tubers can be eaten, but also can be made sugar and winemaking, but also can be made of starch, pectin and so on, and the production of starch can be made of vermicelli and vermicelli.

Types of sweet potato

Sweet potato is a dicotyledonous plant of the order Dicotyledonaceae, which is mainly distributed in China's Beijing, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Tianjin, Hebei, the three eastern provinces, Nei Mongol, Yunnan, Sichuan, Hubei, Gansu, Anhui, Fujian, Shaanxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Hainan and other places.

Sweet potato properties

Sweet potato is an annual herbaceous plant of the family Cyclophyllaceae, which is tubular-eyed, and it is also known as red taro, sweet potato, yam, yam, sweet potato, kamaboko, white potato, golden potato, sweet potato, cushion potato, pangasia, white taro, fennel taro groundnuts, red-skinned sweet potatoes, and budding sweet potatoes.

Sweet potato likes warmth and fear of cold, like light environment, light enough when the leaf color is thick, long leaf age, stem thick, stem conductive tissue developed, high yield.

What does sweet potato look like

Sweet potato can be more than 2 meters long, lying on the ground diagonally, the leaves are generally broadly ovate, the corolla is pink, white, mauve or purple, campanulate or funnel-shaped, there is an underground tuberous root, tuberous root fusiform, the outer skin of the earth yellow or purple-red.

Sweet potato shapeThe fruit of the sweet potato is the same as that of the petunia, which is round or flat, and is generally round if it bears one seed in a fruit, semicircular if it bears two, and irregularly triangular if it bears three or more.

Sweet potato leaf appearance: sweet potato leaves have tomentum on both sides, denser on young leaves, length, width width vary greatly according to cultivation conditions, there are two glands at the junction of the leaf blade and the petiole, there are a lot of shapes of the leaf blade, roughly divided into heart-shaped, kidney-shaped, triangular, palmate and so on.

Sweet potato color: the sweet potato's pericarp is green or purple when immature, and withered or brown when mature, with 1-4 yellowish-brown or black seeds in each paddle, and the size and shape of the seeds are related to the number of seeds between.

Role and value of sweet potatoes

Sweet potatoes are rich in starch, vitamins, fiber and other nutrients needed by the human body, but also rich in magnesium, phosphorus, calcium and other mineral elements and linoleic acid.

The tubers of sweet potatoes can be eaten, and can also be used to make sugar and brewing, as well as starch, pectin, etc. The starch produced can be used to make vermicelli and vermicelli.