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Ipomoea ommaneyi

Ipomoea ommaneyi
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Ipomoea ommaneyi, in Afrikaans known as the beespatat (cattle sweet potato), is an herbaceous plant growing trailing annual stems from a perennial taproot that is large and tuberous.

The dull pink summer flowers grow in dense heads on sturdy stalks and pointed green calyces. They have long, funnel-shaped corolla tubes that spread into circular upper parts.

I. ommaneyi grows in grassland of the summer rainfall areas, particularly the Free State, KwaZulu-Natal and north of the Vaal River, as well as in Zimbabwe and further in tropical Africa at altitudes roughly between 900 m and 1300 m. The species is not considered threatened in its habitat early in the twenty first century.

It has been used as famine food by the Zulus and has also featured in traditional medicine (Van Wyk and Malan, 1997; www.redlist.sanbi.org; www.fao.org).

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