I am curious as to whether you can eat ornamental sweet potato tubers........ All the research on the web says nothing about edibility.. however all of those whom have many years on me say that you cannot. All way well until I came across a small grower in Chatham, IL that was selling "Sweet Potatoes" 50 slips in a pot for 5$. This man is a healthy 80 years old at least, and he told me that his daughter was on vacation in the caribbean, and she stuck a sweet potatoe from a street vendor into her jacket and brought it home...... 25 years ago. He has kept the strain alive for the last 25 years and says it is unlike any sweet potato that you can buy, for it lacks any stringiness in the tuber when cooked. More to the point now.... this "Sweet Potato" looks like a normal green version of the "Ornamental" vines sold in every big box store. I am uploading a picture of the "Old Man's" sweet potato.....My confusion lies in the undeniable similarity between something I was told to relish and something I am to avoid eating. It looks just like a bland version of the popular purple sweet potato vine.
