date:Jul 29, 2016
Potatoes and sweet potatoes might have similar names, but the German Landvolk-Pressedienst announces that, botanically speaking, they are two different varieties.
Our familiar potato is part of the nightshade family, or solanaceae, while the sweet potato, or kumara, belongs to the bindweed family, or concolvulaceae. However, both come from Central and South America. From there, the sweet potato arrived in England in the sixteenth century, where the Indian name Batata was changed to Potato. Thus