Sweet potato
Ipomoea batatas · Bindweed family
Plant portrait
Sweet potato spreads leafy stems above thickened storage roots.
Harvested part
The storage roots.
What to watch for
Watch trailing stems and leaves; the swollen roots differ from potato stem tubers.
Growth stages of the sweet potato
Plotilo illustrates the sweet potato in 5 stages in 3D: seed, small sprout, young plant, growing and harvest. The models show typical shapes; they do not predict how long growth takes.
- Seed
Starting from a seed. It is shown on the surface to make it visible in this illustration.
- Small sprout
A short first stem and its first small leaves emerge.
- Young plant
The young plant carries more leaves and starts to take its own shape.
- Growing
Leaves and stems develop. Their shape depends on the species.
- Harvest
An illustration of the harvested part. Roots are made visible for clarity; this image does not confirm actual maturity.
Same botanical family
No other plant from the bindweed family is in the Plotilo catalogue yet.