2007-03-18 14:43:06 · 5 answers · asked by Nikki 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Botany
ecolink was on the right track ... they do look a little bit like eyes. If you look at a clean potato, each "eye" has two parts, an "eyebrow" that is a vestigial leaf and a small bud in the axil of that "leaf" so that the two of them together look (if you use a lot of imagination) like an eye+eyebrow.
If you look, you will also see that the eyes are not evenly distributed. The attachment end (where the tuber is attached to the plant when it is in the ground) has hardly any eyes but the opposite end has a lot of them crowded together ... that's because that is the growing point.
2007-03-19 23:44:38 · answer #1 · answered by myrtguy 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Potato Seed Buds
2016-10-14 11:06:37 · answer #2 · answered by aispuro 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most sources say that somebody must have thought they looked like eyes, which is not too informative, but the site listed below says: "(Ever wonder why tuber buds are called "eyes"? Because they have "eyebrows" which are actually rudimentary leaf scars.)" Hmmm. Makes me want to go check on a potato.
http://oregonstate.edu/potatoes/seed.htm
2007-03-18 14:52:46 · answer #3 · answered by ecolink 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
their proper name is sprouts.but are called eyes as they grow from the tuber of the potato.if you leave a potato in a dark cupboard for a few weeks. they grow these eyes.cut the potato in quarters and plant and you will grow another batch of potatoes
2007-03-18 14:53:21 · answer #4 · answered by fatdadslim 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Those are the ones that if you'll plant them, they will grow as potato plants..
They're just lik the seeds of a potato.. *^^*
2007-03-18 14:46:31 · answer #5 · answered by :) 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋