Sweet potato greens are edible, tasty, and good for your eyes


	Sweet potato greens are edible, tasty, and good for your eyes

Lexica

6-4-2008 6:40 PM

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food, cooking, plants

Lexica says:

The sweet potato greens sound interesting and worth checking out, but the one that grabbed my attention was the ponnangani - I love the idea of a plant called "sessile joyweed".

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