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Sweet potato fasciation

October 6, 2016 by Marilyn Odneal

John Rumfelt brought his weird looking Beauregard sweet potato vine in to the station wondering why it looked so strange. It is fasciated – flattened and ribbed – due to hormonal imbalance from a mutation or other factors. Fasciation is not contagious and John told Leslie Akers that the vines had a good amount of sweet potatoes. I have seen this symptom on highbush blueberry and apple branches, but this is the first time I saw a fasciated sweet potato! To read more about fasciation, see Fascinating Fasciation at https://hort.purdue.edu/ext/fascinatingfasciation.html

This sweet potato vine is fasciated showing a flattened, ribbed stem.
This sweet potato vine is fasciated showing a flattened, ribbed stem.

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