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What is the latest wild sweet potato?

Published: 2024-11-08 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/08, Wild sweet potato is a multi-purpose plant that integrates food, medicine, greening and ornamental, also known as Diguo, sweet potato bubble and so on. It is a creeping woody vine of the genus Ficus of Moraceae. The whole plant has milk, is more than 10 meters long, grows on the ground, touches the ground and produces whisker-like adventitious roots, similar to a giant centipede.

Wild sweet potato is a multi-purpose plant that integrates food, medicine, greening and ornamental, also known as Diguo, sweet potato bubble and so on. It is a creeping woody vine of the genus Ficus of Moraceae. The whole plant has milk, more than 10 meters long, and grows on the ground. It is easy to touch the ground and give birth to whisker-shaped adventitious roots, similar to a giant centipede, so it is also known as the centipede. Because it looks like loquat, it is called loquat in some areas of Hubei Province.

Wild sweet potato stem brown, slightly inflated, ground-touching slender adventitious roots, leaves papery, Obovate-elliptic, apex acute, base rounded or shallowly cordate, margin finely or undulate serrate, Ternate-veined, petiole 1-2 cm long, inflorescence with short peduncle, buried in soil, globose or ovoid, purplish red when ripe, basal bracts 3, male flowers on mouth of receptacle Female peanut in another inflorescence receptacle.

The stem of wild sweet potato is soft and tough, and its leaves are 2 cm long and 2 cm wide. They are emerald green and do not fall through winter. They are good fodder for herbivores, especially rabbits, sheep and geese. Flowers unisexual, fascicled or solitary in leaf axils or branches. The fruit is globular, 1.5-2.5 cm in diameter, young fruit turquoise, ripe light red, fragrant and sweet as honey.

Wild sweet potato has the characteristics of cold tolerance, drought tolerance, shade tolerance, barren tolerance, water and moisture resistance, even if planted in the sand or slate cracks, it will flourish and green. Whether it is the scorching summer or the winter of ice and snow, it spreads like brocade all year round, and the green leaves are like shade. Whether growing on the hills exposed to the scorching sun or under the ancient forest, the leaves are always green and full of vitality. No matter it is a depression or a dry mountain, it can be settled as it happens, and it will remain green at 04:00.

Wild sweet potato is suitable for greening in parks or places that are easy to be trampled by tourists, and can withstand the trampling of many tourists, because this tough and luxuriant stem always grows crisscross, so it will naturally "weave" into a "giant fishing net". Can loosen the surface soil, sand firmly "net", coupled with a thick leaf perennial "cover", like a permanent green carpet The special effect of this kind of sand prevention and soil consolidation is unmatched by other plants, and it can be called the best of sand prevention and soil consolidation. Can also be used for fruit cultivation, suitable for planting in the orchard, so that the traditional single-season orchard into a double-season orchard. Can also be used for fruit, leaf hanging bonsai, flexible green stems chic and elegant, with "thousands of strands of willow branches are hanging green strips" beauty.

 
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