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SWEET POTATO . This plant, known botanically as Ipomaea batatas (formerly as Convolvulus batatas), and a member of the natural order Convolvulaceae, is generally cultivated in most tropical countries for the sake of its tuberous root, which is an article of diet greatly in request. It is a climbing perennial with entire or palmately-lobed leaves very variable in shape borne on slender twining stems. The flowers
starch
call
supply of water during the growing season. For an account of the cultivation in North America, where large quantities are grown in the Southern states, see L. H. Bailey, Cyclopaedia of American Horticulture (1902). Sir George Watt
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SWEET-SOP, or Sugar Apple, botanical name Anona squamosa, a small tree or shrub with thin oblong-ovate leaves, solitary greenish flowers
cone
diameter and contains a sweet creamy-yellow custard-like pulp. It is a native of the West Indies and tropical America; it is much prized as a fruit, and has been widely introduced into the eastern hemisphere.Another species, A. muricala, is the sour-sop, a small ever-green tree bearing a larger dark-green fruit, 6 to 8 in. long and r to 5 lb in weight, oblong or bluntly conical in shape, with a rough spiny skin and containing a soft white juicy sub-acid pulp with a flavour of turpentine. It is a popular fruit in the West Indies, where it is native, and is grown with special
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