Often grown in container gardens for its trailing stems of purple chartreuse or variegated foliage ornamental sweet potato vine is actually related to the sweet potatoes you d grow in your vegetable garden.
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Popular varieties like marguerite have small round tubers while varieties like blackie have longer narrower tubers.
That means the tubers it forms are actually edible.
Grown and cared for like average houseplants these attractive vines add a little something extra to the home or patio.
Sweet potato vine ipomoea batatas named for its edible cousin is an ornamental warm season annual grown for its attractive leaves and vining habit the foliage lends a tropical feel to the garden and comes in a range of colors and varying forms.
Ornamental sweet potato vines are in the same family as edible sweet potatoes and are in fact the same species.
The ornamental varieties are simply cultivars of the species plant.
The only surprising thing about the sudden popularity of sweet potato vines is why it took so long to happen.
One of the most versatile plants around you can grow sweet potato vine in sun or shade and in container gardens landscapes or garden beds and borders.
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Cuttings of sweet potato vine either edible or ornamental cultivars will rapidly form roots in water and will grow in it indefinitely in good lighting with a steady supply of nutrients.
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Not nearly as wicked as its name implies this sweet potato vine has a trailing habit deep purple leaves.
Sweet potato vine ipomoea batatas blackie is a fast growing tropical vine that gracefully spills over the edges of patio containers or hanging baskets.
While the ornamental sweet potato plants don t often flower when blackie does it produces lavender or purple trumpet like flowers.
One of the easiest ways to create multi seasonal interest in the garden is to use plants with interesting foliage.
Ornamental sweet potato info.
These purple sweet potato vines are so dark that they are nearly black hence their name.
Purple sweet potato color is also used as a natural food coloring.
The plant is loved for its colorful chartreuse purple bronze copper or black foliage.
How to grow a purple sweet potato vine.
And because its beauty comes from the foliage you can.
They are bred for the beauty of their leaves rather than edible tubers and the vines from these plants make them look more like a morning glory or clematis than a member of the potato family.
