Talk:List of sweet potato cultivars

Describing color of sweet potatoes

If there is a definitive resource for color terms used to describe coloration of sweet potato cultivars (or to describe a particular one), let's use it. In order to provide some kind of description, I initially chose color terms based on averages of adjacent samples collected from color-balanced photographs. Ringbang (talk) 18:19, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

I concur—especially since "Atomic Tangerine" isn't exactly the most objective of color names.66.26.95.207 (talk) 22:02, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Atomic tangerine is a specific color. Ringbang (talk) 01:57, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

This research project at North Carolina State University uses the following colours. I don't know whether they constitute a standard, but I have seen the same descriptors used in other scholarly works:

• Skin: copper, light, orange, pink, purple, red, rose, tan, white
• Flesh: pure white, cream, yellow, medium orange, deep orange, very deep orange

—Ringbang (talk) 22:52, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

Question about a sweet potato

Today at the San Francisco Civic Center Farmer's market, I bought some sweet potatoes that were described to me as being "Hawaiian sweet potatoes". They are light tan with rough skin on the outside and the flesh inside is purple. I cooked one tonight for dinner and it was delicious! What is the technical name for this variety of sweet potato? Keraunos (talk) 09:48, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

Hello! This sweet potato is almost certainly Ipomoea batatas 'Purple Heart'. Purple Heart is the name of the cultivar. This cultivar derives in part from the sweet potatoes of Okinawa Island. Ringbang (talk) 22:43, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

The table need a column, .....

the country of origion — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.38.105.161 (talk) 00:52, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

 Added to the "edible roots" table. —Ringbang (talk) 22:52, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

Boniato

I see sweet potatoes at the grocery store labeled "boniato" very frequently. Is there another name for them? I can't seem to find them on the cultivar page. Thriley (talk) 06:52, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

​Hi, boniato is a regional Spanish word for sweet potato that often refers to sweet potatoes with certain characteristics: pinkish skin and white flesh that's fluffy and dry when cooked; the flavour is less sweet and more nutty than orange-fleshed sweet potato. I added/labeled four boniato varieties in the list: Campeon, Grand Asia, Japanese, and Picadita. There's also a new link in the "Further reading" section. —Ringbang (talk) 22:52, 12 July 2018 (UTC)