Potato Vine?
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- Subject: Potato Vine?
- From: M* T*
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 01:05:29 -0400
In a search for something entirely different, I came upon this drawing of
Dioscorea bulbifera - Air potato, which looks, to my eye, like the close up
photo of "potato vine" that was posted...it's on a page of line drawings
that's part of the University of Florida Aquatic, Wetland and Invasive
Plant Information Retrieval System. Thought I'd post it before I lost it in
case it spreads any light...or maybe adds to the confusion:-) Know nothing
about the plant and don't really have time to do a search on it,
but....FWIW
http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/diobuldr.jpg
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> 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.
>
>
>
> mlaute@micron.net on 09/27/1999 11:27:00 AM
> Please respond to perennials@mallorn.com
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> cc: (bcc: Betty Moorman/Zeon)
> Subject: Re: Round-Up (formerly Killing weeds with fire?)
>
>
>
> At 10:43 AM 9/27/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Betty Moorman@ZEON
> >09/27/99 10:43 AM
> >
> >Early in the season, when we still had RAIN, I painted lots of the
leaves
> >of the vile potato vine with Round-Up. I used this tedious method of
> >application because is has interspersed itself with myrtle. The
Round-Up
> >did a moderately effective job of killing the potato vine and the myrtle
> >seemed to have been spared damage. Now I notice the myrtle in that area
> >looks unusually stressed. All the myrtle is stressed from lack of rain
> but
> >this area looks nearer death. Is it possible since the two plants were
so
> >close together that some of the Round-Up transferred from the potato
vine
> >roots to the myrtle roots?
> >
> >For the record, when I refer to "myrtle" it can be translated "vinca
> minor"
> >and/or "periwinkle".
> >
> >Betty
> >North-central Kentucky
> >
> What is potato vine? I never heard of it, and none of my references to
> weeds mention it. Margaret L
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