There are hundreds of varieties of sweet potatoes. The following pictures show you 9 of them, grown in North Carolina.
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Covington
Rose colored skin and moist orange flesh.
Most popular variety planted in NC - 87 % in 2009. |
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Beauregard
Rose colored skin and moist orange flesh.
Second in popularity with 10 % of NC acreage. |
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Hernandez
Reddish skin and moist orange flesh.
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O'Henry
Copper colored skin and moist cream fleshed variant of Beauregard.
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Evangeline
Rose colored skin and moist deep orange flesh.
New release from Louisiana.
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Puerto Rican
Copper colored skin and moist reddish orange flesh.
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Japanese
Red skin and slightly dry white flesh.
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Murasaki - a Japanese variety
Purple skin and dry white flesh.
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Purple Sweet Potato
Purple skin and moist purple flesh.
Not yet released as a variety in NC.
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