Re: Potato Vine (?)





Betty Moorman@ZEON
09/28/99 09:22 AM






deanslgr@kode.net on 09/27/1999 02:39:14 PM

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To:   perennials@mallorn.com
cc:    (bcc: Betty Moorman/Zeon)
Subject:  Re: Potato Vine (?)




Betty --
I've never heard of anything called "potato vine" either.  Could you
perhaps be
talking about black nightshade, sometimes called "bittersweet" (not to be
confused with REAL bittersweet) because of the red berries.  The vine looks
similar to a cultivated potato and, thanks to those red berries (with help
from
the birds), tends to come up everywhere.
/ My vine has no berries.
Dean Sliger
Warren, MI, USA
Zone 6B

moorman@teamzeon.com wrote:
> Betty Moorman@ZEON
> 09/27/99 12:58 PM
>
> Margaret,
>
> Be very grateful that you have never heard of potato vine.  It's the bane
> of my gardening efforts.  This subject was up for discussion on this list
> before.  At that time, I queried the list members about it and apparently
> no one on the list (other than me) knew of it.  It is listed in the
> Kentucky Wildflowers book, but the pictured one has flowers (which mine
> does not have) so I guess mine is a nonflowering variety of that one.  It
> is impossible to pull up.  When you try to pull it, the leaf stalks break
> off and some of the vine can be broken but the roots do not come up.  It
> spreads like wildfire.  My mother had it in her flowers and I guess I
> unwittingly brought some home when I transplanted something from her
house.
> I believe it gets its name from the tiny objects that look like very
small
> potatoes and grow near the roots .  (Yes, occasionally one can pull up a
> vine with roots attached, but rarely.)  Either it is native to only a
small
> area of Kentucky or other gardeners know it by another name.  I also
called
> the lady who writes the gardening column for the Louisville
Courier-Journal
> and she didn't seem to know what I was talking about.
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