No, we just discussed this in our bio class its actually a tuberous root, not to be confused with the term tuber. Potatoes on the other hand are stems, but there is a difference.
roots and stems
potato
A sweet potato is a vegetable. Sweet potato's are considered to be a root vegetable because it grows underground. The sweet potato is pinkish orange in color.
Carrot, sweet potato and turnip
no!!
Sweet potato is a type of potato but it is not like potato produce by underground stem but by storage root
Sweet potato, like white (etc.) potatoes are tubers, in other words, edible roots. They grow underground. (in the ground.)
9 pounds, grown in Rutherford County, 2008
Sweet Potato stores the food in stems ! The Scientific name of the sweet potato is Ipomoe botata. The roots develops from nodes, and leaves will come up, even if we placed in normal temperatue !
An enlarged, fleshy, underground root such as a dahlia or a sweet potato.
in the western part of North Carolina
Ipomoea is a sweet potato plant that is grown for it colorful vines, it does not produce sweet potatoes.