Storage root
shape
Storage root vary
in shape and size according to the cultivar, type of soil where the plant is
grown, and other factors. Their shape can be round, round elliptic, ovate,
obovate, oblong, long oblong, long elliptic, and long irregular or curved.
Storage root
colour
The storage root
skin colour can be whitish, cream, yellow, orange, brown-orange, pink, red,
red-purple and very dark purple. The intensity of the colour depends on
the environmental conditions where the plant is grown. The flesh colour
can be white, cream, yellow or orange. However, some cultivars show
red-purple pigmentation in the flesh in very few scattered spots, pigmented
rings or, in some cases, throughout the entire flesh.
Source:
Huaman, Z. Systemic botany and morphology of the sweetpotato plant. Technical
Information Bulletin 25. International Potato Centre, Lima, Peru. 22 p.
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Storage
root parts
Storage
root formation
Storage
root shapes from top left: round, round elliptic, elliptic, ovate,
obovate; from bottom left: oblong, long oblong, long elliptic, and long
irregular or curved (CIP).
Flesh
colour (CIP). |
