Sweet tattie

Sweet Tattie
Sweet tattie in flouer in Hong Kong, Cheenae
Sweet tattie ruits
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Solanales
Faimily:	Convolvulaceae
Genus:	Ipomoea
Species:	I. batatas
Binomial name
Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.

The sweet tattie (Ipomoea batatas), alswa cried as yam, is a dicotyledonous plant that belangs the faimily Convolvulaceae. Its lairge, starchy, sweet-tastin, tuberous ruits is a ruit vegetable. The young leafs an shoots is whiles etten as greens. O the thareby 50 genera an mair nor 1,000 speshies o Convolvulaceae, I. batatas is the anly crap plant o major importance—some ethers is uised locally, but mony is actually pushionous. The sweet tattie is anely distantly relatit tae the tattie (Solanum tuberosum) an disnae belang the nightshade faimily.

The genus Ipomoea that conteens the sweet tattie includes several gairden flouers cried mornin glories, though that term isnae uisually stendit tae Ipomoea batatas. Some cultivars o Ipomoea batatas is grown as ornamental plants; the name "tuberous mornin glory" mey be uised in a horticultural context.

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Wiktionar

Rake fer Sweet potato i the
Scots Wiktionar, the free Scots dictionar.

• "The mystery of the sweet potato"
• FAO Leaflet No. 13 - 1990 - Sweet Potato Archived 2014-12-17 at the Wayback Machine