Variety of Sweet Potato Types

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Variety of Sweet Potato Types

World-wide there are over 6,000 varieties of sweet potatoes. Source - International Potato Center (CIP)

Following are descriptions for some types found in North America.

Skin color comes in various shades of yellow-orange, tan, reddish-purple and red.

Flesh colors come in shades of orange, yellow-orange, white, and even red.

Most of the sweet potatoes produced in the U.S. are either Beauregard or Jewel (see descriptions in chart below).

Some other orange-flesh sweet potato varieties include:

Nemagold, Centennial, Southern Delite, Hernandez, Regal, Bush, Travis, Excel, Vardaman.

Some other white-flesh or cream-colored sweet potato varieties include:

Star Leaf (known generically as Boniato), White Delight, Nancy Hall, Sumor, Picadita, Campeon.

Sweet Potato Name & Origin / Skin Color / Flesh Color

Allgold (Oklahoma) / Tan / Orange

Apache / Pale Orange / Pale Orange

Beauregard (Louisiana) / Rose / Orange

Brinkley White / Creamy White / Creamy

Bunch Porto Rico / Yellow-Orange / Yellow-Orange

Carolina Ruby (No Carolina) / Dark Red-Purple Red / Dark Orange
Centennial / Copper / Pale Orange

Cherokee / Bright Copper / Orange

Continental Red / Pink-Red / Light Orange

Cordner (Texas) / Copper / Medium Orange

Cordner's Red (Oklahoma) / Purple Red / Orange

Dianne / Reddish / Dark Orange

Garnet / Red / Orange

Georgia Jet / Purple Red / Light Orange

Hayman (Eastern Shore) / Cream / Yellow-Greenish (cooked)

Hernandez (Louisiana) / Burnt Orange / Deep Orange

Jewel (No Carolina) / Copper / Deep Orange

Porto Rico (No Carolina) / Rose-pink / Orange Mottled

White Delight (Georgia) / Purplish-pink / White

The Duck Creek Farms' website provides descriptions of many of the 150 varieties of sweet potatoes that they are now providing for shipment from late spring till early summer. See some of Duck Creek Farms' 150 sweet potato varieties for 2010.

Email them at duckcreekfarms@aol.com for more information about ordering.

The Wayne E. Bailey Produce Company's website provides some more background, description and pictures of other sweet potato varieties including several Asian ones.

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