Okinawan Sweetpotato

Sweetpotato Varieties I Grow

Vardaman
Purple
(Harvest of Purple)
Kotobuki

Sweetpotato Varieties I Used To Grow

Okinawan
Regal
Nancy Hall
Miller's Old-Time Red

USDA National Germplasm Repository (Griffin GA) Selections I Used To Grow

Camote Morado (Guatemala)
Heart Leaf
Notched Leaf

Sources

Sand Hill Preservation Center
Steele Plant Company
Scott Farms
Seed Savers Exchange Membership (buy from gardeners like you)

Reference

The Sweet Potatoes & Yams Web Site
North Carolina Sweetpotato Commission
Oregon State University
Purdue University
White Paper (Japanese Society of Root and Tuber Crops)

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Okinawan sweetpotatoes have a creamy sweet purple flesh, with white skin and a notched leaf shape. Certain conditions can frequently cause the roots to be numerous, long, and thin, with very few of edible size. These require about 140 days to mature, which is longer than the average 110-120 days.

Okinawan sweetpotatoes originated in ..... Okinawa, Japan. There they are called Beni-Imo and have been one of their staple foods for centuries. They were a crop that could survive the frequent typhoons, unlike rice.

Article on Purple-Fleshed Okinawan Sweetpotato

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