Ipomoea batatas (binomen ab Ioanne Baptista Lamarckio anno 1793 statutum), Latinitate communi batatas ,[ 1] Convolvulacearum pertinet. Eius origo est America Meridionalis , sed nunc in omnibus regionibus tropicalibus colitur, quia radix sua editur.
Tuberibus facultas aphrodisiaca olim attribuebatur: unde Ioannes Falstaff persona Shakesperiana in The Merry Wives of Windsor Let the skie raine potatoes ).
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Tubera Ipomoeae batatas Fontes antiquiores 1530 : Petrus Martyr ab Angleria , De orbe novo decades 33v , 45v
1526/1557 : Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdés , Historia general y natural de las Indias, islas y tierra-firme del mar Océano vol. 1 pp. 272-274 )
1565 : John Sparke in Richard Hakluyt , The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation p. 530 (potatoes )
1597 : John Gerard , The Herball, or generall historie of plantes pp. 780-781 "potatoes"
1601 : Carolus Clusius , Rariorum plantarum historia appendix p. 78
1629 : John Parkinson , Paradisi in sole Paradisus terrestris pp. 516-518 "pappas or battatas: potatoes"
1745 : Georgius Everhardus Rumphius , Herbarium Amboinense An Interpretation of Rumphius's Herbarium Amboinense . Manilae: Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Bureau of Science, 1917 pp. 442-444
1793 : Jean Baptiste Lamarck , Tableau Encyclopédique et Methodique ... Botanique vol. 1 p. 465 Eruditio Sophie D. Coe, America's First Cuisines (Austinopoli: University of Texas Press, 1994) pp. 19-26, 162
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