Sweet potato vine ipomoea batatas blackie is a fast growing tropical vine that gracefully spills over the edges of patio containers or hanging baskets.
Sweet potato vine purple flowers.
The plant is loved for its colorful chartreuse purple bronze copper or black foliage.
With edible sweet potatoes as with most root crops and herbs it is important to remove any flowers.
These purple sweet potato vines are so dark that they are nearly black hence their name.
How to grow a purple sweet potato vine.
One of the most versatile plants around you can grow sweet potato vine in sun or shade and in container gardens landscapes or garden beds and borders.
This vigorous and fast growing cultivar is a popular variety which is known for its maple like leaf shape.
Edible sweet potato vines and some ornamental varieties bloom with flowers that resemble morning glories in shape but some ornamental sweet potato vines do not flower according to missouri.
However if a sweet potato flower does occur it resembles its cousin the morning glory convolvulus spp mostly in shades of light blue to purple.
And because its beauty comes from the foliage you can.