Potato vines do not produce tubers ... grow into fruits

If someone changes the way to call potatoes from "tuber" to "fruit" or "left", don't be in a hurry to think that they're wrong. Because of the fact, there are not only potato varieties that grow in the ground but also strange potatoes that grow fruit called the vines, air potatoes or sweet potatoes.

Potato vines - type of potatoes without tubers that grow into fruits

Air potatoes, also known as vines, are a member of the yam family that originated in sub-Saharan Africa and Africa. According to the most recent research by scientists, this air potato variety originated from China.

In the years 1905, the potato was sent to Florida (USA) to study as a medicinal plant and now it can be found in many places throughout Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and soon. both in Vietnam.

This variety is like a wild potato. On the outside, they are quite similar in shape to Dalat potatoes. However, if you pay close attention, you will find that the outer shell of this potato variety is quite hard, can be peeled off, then the skin is green and peeling that blue layer can be used.

In addition, many people are word of mouth if picking this potato and leaving it in a cool place for a long time, when cooking, eating very flexible, potatoes also have their own flavor. However, when the use and characteristics are unknown, scientists recommend that you should not use them arbitrarily.

In Vietnam, this potato variety appears many branches in the forest edge of basalt lands . To recognize this type of potato is easy, with the outer skin of the potato peeled off. and inside the blue shell is viscous. Air potatoes have bulbs up to 2kg, 3kg even 4kg. Air potatoes can be grown in many different soil types , they often appear in forest soil, are tall climbing plants and fast growing canopy trees.

A tree gives a lot of tubers, they can grow quickly. New plants can germinate from very small bulbs or even tubers placed close to the ground. Vines are rarely flowered, the tubers grow along the vines and often produce fruits in the fall and winter. This type of potato can grow very quickly, about over 20cm per day. Each tree can climb up to 30 meters in length.