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.
Neither. A potato is a plant with the potato in the ground under a green top.
A potato is a plant cell. It is a type of vegetable that grows beneath the ground as part of the potato plant. The cells in a potato contain cell structures typical of plant cells, such as a cell wall and chloroplasts.
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.
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.
Yes, you can plant a potato to grow a new plant. Potatoes have "eyes" or growth nodes from which new shoots will emerge. Planting a whole potato or a piece with an eye can both be used to grow a new potato plant.
Salads are made mainly from vegetables (lettuce, radish, onion, carrots, potato etc.)
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Potato chips were invented in Louisiana in 1853.
The part of the potato plant we eat is called the tuber, which is actually an enlarged underground stem.
Why
It is a common misconception that potatoes are roots. They are actually tubers, and thus potatoes are a part of the potato plant. They are not the roots of any plant.
In rhizomes - i.e the 'root ginger' part of the ginger plant, and the 'potato' part of the potato plant. Howeve the potato is a tuber, not a rhizome.