What is a wild sweet potato?

Wild sweet potato is a multi-purpose plant integrating edible, medicinal, greening and ornamental. It is also called ground fruit, sweet potato bubble, etc. It is a creeping woody vine belonging to Moraceae. The whole plant has milk, up to more than 10 meters long. It is born on the ground. It is easy to produce beard-shaped adventitious roots when touching the ground. It looks like a giant centipede, so it is also called a centipede. Because it looks like loquat, it is called loquat in some areas of Hubei Province.

Wild sweet potato stems brown, nodes slightly expanded, contact with slender adventitious roots, leaves firm papery, obovate elliptic, apex acute, base circular or shallow, margin with fine or wavy serrations, with three veins, petiole 1~2 cm long. Receptacle shortly peduncular, clustered on leafless short branches, buried in soil, globose or ovoid, purple-red at maturity, basal bracts 3, male flowers borne at the mouth of receptacle, female flowers borne in another receptacle.

Wild sweet potato stems and tendrils soft and tough, leaves 2~6 cm long, 2~4 cm wide, emerald green, do not fall after winter, for herbivores good feed, especially rabbits, sheep, geese and other as a winter delicacy. Flowers unisexual, clustered or solitary in leaf axils or branches. Fruit globose, diameter 1.5~2.5 cm, young fruit green, mature light red, fragrant overflowing, sweet as honey.

Wild melon has the characteristics of cold tolerance, drought tolerance, shade tolerance, barren tolerance, water resistance and moisture resistance. Even if it is planted in the gravel or slate crevice where grass does not grow, it will also flourish and green. Whether it's hot summer or icy winter, it spreads like brocade all year round, and green leaves are like shade. Whether grown on sun-baked hills or under ancient forests, the leaves are always green and vibrant. Whether it is a depression or a dry mountain, it can be happy and evergreen at all times.

Wild sweet potato is suitable for greening in parks or places easily trampled by tourists, and can withstand many tourists trampling, because this tough and luxuriant stem always grows criss-crossing, so it will naturally "weave" into a "giant fishing net", which can loosen the soil and sand on the surface firmly. In addition, there are dense leaves all year round "cover", which looks like a permanent green carpet. This special effect of sand prevention and soil fixation is beyond the reach of other ground cover plants. It can be called the best in sand prevention and soil fixation. It can also be used for fruit cultivation, suitable for interplanting in orchards, so that the traditional single-season orchard becomes a double-season orchard. Can also be used for viewing fruit, viewing leaves hanging bonsai, flexible green stems elegant, with "ten thousand hanging green silk sash" beauty.