Ipomoea simplex
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ipomoea-simplex-266-10726583
title:
Ipomoea simplex
text:
Ipomoea simplex is a central and eastern Southern African grassland species of Convolvulaceae or Sweet Potato family, notable for its large tuber or root, often eaten raw by Xhosa and Sotho herd boys. Carl Peter Thunberg first described this species in the Prodromus Plantarum Capensium of 1794. 'Ipomoea' = 'worm-like', in reference to the twining habit of the genus. The Earl of Derby presented Kew Gardens with a "rounded uncouth-looking tuber" in 1844, having acquired it from the Eastern Cape, a
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description:
Species of flowering plant
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipomoea_simplex
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date modified:
2023-07-03T13:31:32Z
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