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Potatoes are from the perennail Solanum tuberosum from the Solanaceae family, the word potato could refer to the plant itself as well as the edible tuber, which is what you buy at the store. Its a root vegetable, that is delicious and the 4th largest most eaten food in the world, behind only to rice, wheat, and corn.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoPotatoes do not come from flowers.... a potato, as you know it, is a tuber, a specialized stem.
The question you should be asking is, "what plant do potatoes come from?"
The scientific name given to a potato plant is Solanum Tuberosum, of the Solanuceae family.
The potato is a root and they do produce flowers.
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∙ 13y agoThe roots which produce the tubers that we know as potatoes.
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∙ 9y agoPotatoes are the roots of the potato plant.
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It is an underground stem.
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Is Potato plant a herb or sherb plant?
Neither. A potato is a plant with the potato in the ground under a green top.
Can you eat potato from a decorative potato plant?
CAn you eat a decrative potato plants potato?
Is a potato an angiosperm plant?
Yes the potato is an angiosperm
Where do the best potatoes come from?
New baby potatoes come from a potato plant that was just pulled out from the ground and its tubers collected a short while ago. Usually the potato plant is just in the first part of its flowering stage when you can get nice fresh baby taters from the garden.
Does salad come from a plant?
Salads are made mainly from vegetables (lettuce, radish, onion, carrots, potato etc.)
Where is the disaccharide sucrose found in a potato plant?
The Disaccharide Sucrose found in a potato plant is in the flesh of the potato. The potato is nearly 100% starch and carbohydrates that produce sugars in the body.
Why you have to plant the cut pieces with the eye pointing of potato?
potato
Potato is which part of the plant-?
The part of the potato plant we eat is called the tuber, which is actually an enlarged underground stem.
Is it legal to plant a potato?
Why
Where does potato chips come from?
Potato chips were invented in Louisiana in 1853.
Is a potato a plant cell or animal cell?
I am assuming you are talking about the potato plant as a whole and not just the stem of the plant, which is what is known as a "potato." So continuing with the assumption that you are talking about a potato plant, then yes a potato plant is a multicellular organism. It is an organism and it has more than one cell that work together for the good of the group of cells.
What are some Examples of creeping plants?
carper grass, mimosa, sweet potato plant
