Sweet Potato Vine Potato Plant Flower

While the ornamental sweet potato plants don t often flower when blackie does it produces lavender or purple trumpet like flowers.

Sweet potato vine potato plant flower.

Ornamental sweet potato vines are in the same family as edible sweet potatoes and are in fact the same species. Ipomoea batatas sweet caroline this variety is not just one coloration of plant but includes five separate color options yellowish green red purple bronze and light green varieties are available. With edible sweet potatoes as with most root crops and herbs it is important to remove any flowers. One of the easiest ways to create multi seasonal interest in the garden is to use plants with interesting foliage.

The potato vine plant is a decorative climber of walls or. When growing ornamental sweet potato vines there are a number of varieties to choose from. It is important to have a fertilizer that is high in potash in order to encourage tuber or root growth. Despite most people s assumptions this is not a plant children grow by sprouting a potato s eyes.

They can also be grown outdoors as annual ground cover in flower beds. The poor potato vine plant solanum jasminoides or s. Edible sweet potato vines and some ornamental varieties bloom with flowers that resemble morning glories in shape but some ornamental sweet potato vines do not flower according to missouri. They are bred for the beauty of their leaves rather than edible tubers and the vines from these plants make them look more like a morning glory or clematis than a member of the potato family.

Types of ornamental sweet potatoes. Where freezing temperatures occur this means putting the plant in a greenhouse or indoors for the winter. Rather it is a vine that grows up to 25 feet long that boasts an almost perpetual display of showy blue white blossoms. Laxum ought to sue the person who saddled it with its misnomer.

The ornamental varieties are simply cultivars of the species plant. If the energy of the plant is going to flower growth and production then other areas like the tubers will suffer.