Biology 130
Solanum tuberosum;
potato
[Solanaceae]
Weak-stemmed tuber-bearing
perennial which rarely survives Wisconsin winters even if it escapes
from cultivation. Flowers with a showy white or bluish 5-petalled
corolla and distinctive yellow anthers. Alternate, compound leaves
with stalked ovate leaflets alternating with much smaller sessile ones.
Tubers develop from stolons which arise from lower leaf axils and grow
down into the soil. One of
the world’s most important food plants. Native to South America.
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