Scientific Name
Ipomoea x batatas

Common Name
Sweet potato vine
Hardiness: Tender perennial grown as an annual

[Sulfur]
Habit: --
Growth Rate: Rapid
Texture: Medium to coarse
Height: 6 to 10'
Exposure: Sun
Climbing Method: --
Flower/ Fruit: Edible but not tasty tubers
Comments: Grown for the foliage; tuberous roots are edible; Needs training if grown as a vine; can be grown as an annual ground cover; frost sensitive; store tubers in winter
Cultivars: Blackie (purplish red foliage-almost back), Sulfur (lime green/chartreuse foliage, also called Margarita), Pink Frost (tricolor - green, white, pink; not vigorous)
 
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