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Scientific Name: | Solanum tuberosum |
Common Name: | potato |
Family Name: | Solanaceae |
Origin: | South America |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 8a: (-12 to -9.5 °C) |
Plant Type: | Annual, Herbaceous perennial |
Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
Habit: | Arching |
Form: | Mounded |
Texture: | Coarse |
Landscape Uses: | Urban agriculture |
Exposure: | |
Soil or Media: | |
Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Odd-pinnate, Ovate, Entire |
Flowers: | Cyme, White, Blue, Purple, Pink, Jul-Aug-Sep |
Fruit: | Berry (true), Green, Purple |
Key ID Features: | |
Leaves large and increasing in size towards top of plant, bright green, opposite, ovate with miniature leaves between sets of large leaves; stem thick and fleshy. |