A fruit or a veggie?
2007-04-10 18:22:05 · 11 answers · asked by pengwinrules 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Botany
I know That like you plant it but the little eye things are they like small potato's or are the seeds ??
2007-04-10 18:26:05 · update #1
Definitely it is a vegitable.
Scientific name is : Solanum tuberosum (scientific names should be either underlined or slanted in italic-here there's no option)
It is a tuber.Tuber in the sense the produced food by leaves r stored in the tuber. It is not the root. And tubers r used for germmination in potatoes.
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2007-04-10 18:39:04 · answer #1 · answered by Imthath 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Potato is a tuber, or stem tuber,
it is a development of an under ground branch thickened for use as a storage organ ( It stores plenty of edible starch for which the potato is world renowned).
The potato tuber , develops when the branch becomes subterranean..
This modified stem forms at the end of a lateral branch.
Auxiliary buds are located at the nodes( these are called 'eyes' by the potato farmers).
These are used for vegetative propagation of potatoes.
They are not multiplied through seeds .
Potato should not be confused with a tuberous root, sometimes called a root tuber,
such as a sweet potato or Dahlia.
links for convincing photos.
http://waynesword.palomar.edu/images/tuber.jpg
http://www.puc.edu/Faculty/Gilbert_Muth/art0011.jpg
http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/Gardeners/f0261.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/megstalcup/jpgs/potatoes.jpg
http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/pae/botany/botany_map/images/cd343.gif
http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=37979&rendTypeId=4
POTATO IS NEITHER ROOT VEGETABLE NOR A FRUIT!!!
2007-04-11 02:14:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A potato is a vegetable because it is not the part of the plant that contains the seeds.
Note:
-- the potato is not a root, it's a tuber which is a stem
-- tubers are specialized food-storage stems
-- the eyes are buds on the specialized stem
2007-04-10 18:29:14 · answer #3 · answered by ecolink 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Potato is an underground stem, the eyes are the spots for reproducing vegetatively.
2007-04-12 13:03:47 · answer #4 · answered by moosa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A potato is a tuber (root) of a plant.
2007-04-10 18:25:17 · answer #5 · answered by F. B 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I thought I heard somewhere...years ago...that a potato is a fruit. Sounds odd...yet that's what I heard.
I just looked it up on another site...and another similar question posted here before...they all say vegetable. I also read there that a tomato is a fruit...not a vegetable . . . interesting.
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2007-04-10 18:24:39 · answer #6 · answered by onelight 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A tuber. A root vegetable.
2007-04-10 18:25:36 · answer #7 · answered by nubbiwan 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Root vegetable. I have never heard of a root fruit.
2007-04-10 18:26:40 · answer #8 · answered by justbeingher 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A potato is what I eat for breakfast!
2007-04-10 18:24:16 · answer #9 · answered by Mimí..ツ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
veggie
2007-04-10 18:24:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋