I have a pot on my patio in which I planted two sweet potato vines.
For contrast the dark one and the chartreuse variety. They have fared well through the hot summer. In my absence a drip irrigation system kept them watered.
Yesterday, I saw a flower in the pot and recognizing it as a morning glory flower I bent down to see how such a seed had found its way into the pot. It wouldn't be a surprise to see one growing there because they pop up all the time in the garden, mostly where I don't want them. But this flower was on the sweet potato! I now learn that the sweet potato is not a member of the potato family, but only a distant relative. It is convolvulus,
Ipomoea batatas, and this is a morning glory flower! I can only hope it doesn't behave like the other morning glories.
For contrast the dark one and the chartreuse variety. They have fared well through the hot summer. In my absence a drip irrigation system kept them watered.
Yesterday, I saw a flower in the pot and recognizing it as a morning glory flower I bent down to see how such a seed had found its way into the pot. It wouldn't be a surprise to see one growing there because they pop up all the time in the garden, mostly where I don't want them. But this flower was on the sweet potato! I now learn that the sweet potato is not a member of the potato family, but only a distant relative. It is convolvulus, Ipomoea batatas, and this is a morning glory flower! I can only hope it doesn't behave like the other morning glories.
