Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Purple Potato Plant

 


This is a photo from a recent walk at the Desert Botanical Garden.  My attention was on the hanging planter in the above photo when I saw all the purple flowers on the shrub behind it.

They are the blooms on a purple potato plant.  I must have a real affection for purple flowers.  I'm always drawn to them.  

I wonder if this plant ever produces any potatoes.  


9 comments:

  1. Beautiful colour to the flowers.

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  2. Thank you. With all of the freezing temperatures we are having here the flowers put me in a happy mood.

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  3. I wonder if the color of the bloom, relates to the color of the tubor? We never grew potatoes on the farm.

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  4. Beautiful purple, Sharon! Like Andy said it is cold here today, -20˚C this morning!

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  5. Who cares. The blooms are enough!

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  6. What beautiful flowers! The leaves don't look quite like the potato plants we have here (the ones that grow actual potatoes) so I wonder if it's a true potato?

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  7. i've seen that flower before, I wondered what it was called.

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