Sweet potato is a modified food storage root. Potato is indeed a stem that grew from stolons, the underground stems.

Its large, starchy, sweet-tasting tuberous roots are used as a root vegetable. The young shoots and leaves are sometimes eaten as greens.

Sweet potato's scientific name is Ipomea batatas. It is a member of the morning glory family. Tuberous roots are adventitious root modifications found in these ...

Unlike the potato, which is a tuber, or thickened stem, the sweetpotato that we eat is the storage root of the plant; an enlarged lateral root.

Potatoes and yams technically have modified belowground stems (“stem tubers”) while sweet potatoes have “root tubers.”

Sweet potatoes, on the other hand, come from the species Ipomoea batatas, in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. The edible roots are indeed true roots, ...

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Sweet potato is a dicot plant from the family Convolvulaceae. It is an example of an adventitious root and is a modified form of tuberous roots.

The sweetpotato root system consists of fibrous roots - that absorb nutrients and water and anchor the plant - and storage roots - which are lateral roots ...