Re: Potato Vine (?)
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- Subject: Re: Potato Vine (?)
- From: m*@teamzeon.com
- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 10:45:51 -0400
Betty Moorman@ZEON
09/28/99 10:45 AM
stevemh@gis.net on 09/28/1999 11:12:06 AM
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Subject: Re: Potato Vine (?)
i'm guessing potato vine is sweet potato vine, which is grown for foliage,
in shades from bright yellow-green to dark purple.
/ Good guess, but not mine. The color variations on my vine are few and
all in the straight green range.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dean Sliger <deanslgr@kode.net>
To: perennials@mallorn.com <perennials@mallorn.com>
Date: Monday, September 27, 1999 1:56 PM
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.
>
>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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