A potato gallery

The International Potato Center, known as CIP (for its name in Spanish, Centro Internacional de la Papa), is the world’s leading center of research on potatoes and related plants. It is situated in La Molina, Peru, near the capital in Lima.

Along with first-rate research into the forces that help potatoes grow, as well as the pests and diseases that harm them, CIP produces nice graphics. These two pictures, one of the white potato and the other of the sweet potato (which CIP scientists call “sweetpotato”), were intended as posters. In the poster’s larger sizes, the labels on the plants’ various sections (the flower, fruit, and tubers) are clearly visible.

You can see the posters by clicking on the thumbnail pictures below. The pictures are large, and downloading will take a while on slower Internet connections.

The pictures are used by permission of the International Potato Center, which you may want to visit on the Web.

			No relation. As you can see in the pictures, sweet potatoes and white potatoes look a lot alike. Actually, they're not related at all. Potatoes (Solanum tuberosum) are known as tubers; they're related to tomatoes, chiles, and tobacco. Sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) are storage roots.Their relatives include morning glories.
Click here or on the image above to get a larger picture of the white potato.		Click here or on the image above to get a larger picture of the sweet potato.

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