#Ipomoea pandurata

[faguscarolinensis]

Ipomoea pandurata / Wild Potato Vine at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[3rdeyeblaque]

Top 5 Must-Knows about Ancestor High John:

1. Prince High John is multifaceted as both a Hoodoo Saint & Collective of Hoodoo Spirits.

2. Prince High John is a legendary figure of Hoodoo Folklore & an Elevated Ancestor who once walked this land.

3. Prince High John blessed us with a piece of his essence left behind in the infamous High John Root; a staple of Hoodoo Culture.

4. The rhizomes of both Ipomoea purga aka Jalap (native to Mexico) & Ipomoea pandurata are used to invoke the power & spirit of High John; the former is believed to be THE High John Root.

5. Prince High John is to be fed cornbread, greens, yams, whiskey (or other dark liquors), tobacco smoke (via cigars), monry, & adorned with the color purple.

[carolinawrenn]

Wild potato vine (Ipomoea pandurata). Also known as man of the earth or manroot.

[kaapstadmk]

Some of those herbaceous vines, though...

My house seems to have been planted over a patch of Ipomoea pandurata, and that stuff just explodes every late summer and takes over anything already in that garden space.

The frustrating thing is, it's a native, wild sweet potato. The tubers are located directly under the sidewalk and driveway. So, every year it pops up and every year I attempt to extract it from the ground, but I can never fully get rid of it.

Now, if the location it grew was more convenient, I wouldn't care, because its flowers are gorgeous and it's a very vigorous vine.

Imagine if baking bread was a skill any person living independently in their own house needed to have at least a passing familiarity with, so there were endless books, blogs and websites about how to bake bread, but none of them seemed to contain the most basic facts about how bread actually works.

You would go online and find questions like "Help, I put my bread in the oven, and it GOT BIGGER!" and instead of saying anything about bread naturally rises when you put yeast in it, the results would be advertising some kind of $970 device that punches the bread while it's baking so it doesn't rise.

Even the most reliable, factually grounded sources available would have only the barest scraps of information on the particularities of ingredients, such as how different types of flour differ and produce different results, or how yeast affects the flavor profile of bread. Rice flour, barley flour, potato flour and amaranth flour would be just as common as wheat flour, but finding sources that didn't treat them as functionally identical would be near impossible. ��At the same time, websites and books would list specific brands of flour in bread recipes, often without specifying anything else.

An unreasonable amount of people would be hellbent on doing something like baking a full-sized loaf of bread in under 3 minutes, and would regularly bake bread to charred cinders at 700 degrees in an attempt to accomplish this, but instead of gently telling people that their goal is not realistic, books claiming to be general resources would be framed entirely around the goal of baking bread as fast as possible, with entire chapters devoted to making the charred bread taste like it isn't charred.

Anyway, this is what landscaping is like.

[rjalker]

[ID: Nine photographs. The first shows a dark paved walking path covered in the orange remains of pinecones that have been dropped down onto it, with the seed-covering plates scattered everywhere, and a few of the long centers lying nearby. The second shows the branches of a pine tree with the light from the setting sun washing the branches in orange, with an eastern grey squirrel perched on one branch, its fur shining orange from the light, crouched over a pinecone with its tail hanging down the side of the branch. The next four show a large, bush-like plant. The camera first zooms in on a small cluster of startlingly red leaves, standing out sharply against the rest, which are a healthy green. The camera then focuses on a visible stem of the plant, which is a warm brown color, almost orange. Next the camera zooms out a little to show more of the plant, with the original red leaves visible, and the base of the stem shown. Many of the leaves have small black specks on them. Finally the camera shows the tip of one of the stems, with a white hand holding onto a leaf at the end to pull the stem closer to the camera, showing pointed, cone-shaped buds at the base of each leaf, and that each leaf's stem is reddish in color. The last three pictures show a wild potato vine, a type of morning glory. The first is zoomed out, showing both the light green, elongated, heart-shaped leaves, as well as the folded up, closed, large white flowers. The next two pictures zoom in on first the shut flowers, showing that the large petals are closed in a softly-pointed spiral shape, then the leaves, which have slightly purple-colored veins, and red or pink central veins. End ID.]

more pictures taken with a camera that insists its battery is dying two seconds after insisting that the battery is fully charged and it's totally fine to take pictures. There was another squirrel somewhere higher above than that one, but I couldn' tsee it. We knew it was there because it dropped an already chewed up pinecone and almost hit that one, lol.

[thecourageouspetal]

Ipomoea pandurata - Man of Earth

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

When you want more plants so badly you go hunting in temporary fallow areas to dig up some goodies. I now have rough cocklebur, redroot amaranth, prairie fleabane, and purslane, assuming they survive the transplant--one of the reasons I won’t uproot plants from the wild, but a small area that’s been left to go fallow after a structure has been erected that will be mowed and covered in grass before long, well, I’m just giving them a chance.

Also I found enchanter’s nightshade that planted itself in my garden, and it turns out Canadian clearweed stowed away on my jumpseed, so I have that now too.

I should try to find some more temporary fallow areas and see what might be there. Everything I found and brought home is not sold anywhere and widely just regarded as weeds so this might be the only way I ever get to have certain plants.

Oh, and I also learned that we have a native sweet potato (Ipomoea pandurata--wild potato vine) but no one sells it??? What the hell! Give me my sweet potato! And my hog peanut and wild rice too!

[usgsbiml]

Most bees come out only during mid-day.  In fact, I usually don't start catching any bees with a net until at least 9 and in cooler environments it can be even later.  Different story in the tropics many bees are out, starting at dawn (but that is another story).  A few bees reverse those times and come out only in the late evening, early morning, and very rarely on well lit nights (but that is another story).  Its all about the flowers, of course.  In eastern North America you don't have much of this early morningness with the exception of the squash bees (in northern areas they are there only artificially maintained by our habits of planting squash and pumpkins for them, but that is another story) and...Cemolobus ipomoeae, pictured here like an elfin dragon stead.  It, is a fan of Ipomoeae pandurata.   Manroot.  It seems to ignore the other (native and non-native) Ipomoeae plants (unlike Melitoma...but that is another story).  It rarely is captured, but is it rare, or do beeologists just not get up early and look? BTIAS

[bloomingunknown]

Ipomoea pandurata (man of the earth, wild potato vine, morning-glory)

Location: Greensboro, NC

[vandaliatraveler]

Wild potato vine (Ipomoea pandurata), also known as man-of-the-earth, mecha-meck, and wild sweet potato, is a beautiful, late-summer find in Appalachia’s open woods, forest clearings, and thickets. The plant’s spreading white flowers have five shallow lobes and distinctive pink or purple throats. True to its name, this trailing perennial vine in the morning glory family produces an edible tuber, which when mature resembles the starchy roots of the closely-related, true sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas). The tubers are best harvested when young and can be roasted similar to sweet potatoes. Cultivation of this native, environment-friendly plant for food may also be possible, at least on a small scale. Edible tuber aside, this plant deserves more attention as a garden ornamental for its lovely, heart-shaped foliage and spectacular blossoms. The photos above were taken along the Mon River Trail.

[3rdeyeblaque]

Roots of the Month for January 2023: High John Root & Dandelion Root

High John De Conquer Root: borne of the Hoodoo Saint/Collective Spirits of Hoodoo lore and legend; the African Prince who used his trickster wit & strength to overcome his oppressors escaped bondage and sailed back to the Motherland. Who, upon his departure, left a piece of himself behind in the root of a plant we identify as High John Root.

Taxa (Family/Genus/species): Convolvulaceae/ Ipomoea/pandurata or jalapa

Folk Nomenclature: High John De Conker, King Root, Man of the Earth,  Manroot

Common Name: "Morning Glory", "Indian Potato" or "Wild Potato Vine" (Pandurata) / " Morning Glory" ( Jalapa) 

Native Locality: North America (Pandurata) /  Mexico (Jalapa) 

Phenotypic Traits: I. pandurata = round, brown, hairy; resembles  a man's testes / I. jalapa = hard, lumpy, round-ish, dark brown

Parts Used: Root

Gender: Hot

Planetary Ruler: Mars

Elemental Ruler: Fire 

Traditional Usage in Rootwork: to invoke the Spirit of High John against overwhelming oppressive forces/obstacles, to achieve hard-fought victory,& for commanding power & strengthened nature.  NOT TO BE USED FRIVOLOUSLY OR FOR TRIVIAL MATTERS

Traditional Medicinal Usage: a strong laxative; brewed in as a tea or a small piece is to be chewed 

*** High John is undeniably THE root of Hoodoo Tradition & Culture. Today it is heavily overused by Hoodoos as it is appropriated by masking Wypipo attempting to gentrify Hoodoo spaces. There are 2 roots that have been given High John's name - both from the Morning Glory flower genus : Ipomoea pandurata (native to North America) & Ipomoea jalapa (native to Mexico). There has been much debate as to which root is the true High John Root, but Elders and Seasoned Folks raised or reared up underneath their wings know what's what. This isn't to say that we cannot invoke High John's spirit with 1 or the other; I believe we can with both as Black Americans & as Black Mexicans. However, if one knows the Hoodoo History & Culture cross-referenced with botany & geography, there can only be 1 true High John Root. 

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Dandelion Root: 

Taxa (Family/Genus/species): Asteraceae/Taraxicum/ dens-leonis or officinale

Folk Nomenclature: Lions Tooth

Common Name: Dandelion

Native Locality: Eurasia 

Phenotypic Traits: Long, stringy, shades of light and dark brown, carrot-like

Parts Used: Root & Leaves

Gender: Hot

Planetary Ruler: Jupiter

Elemental Ruler: Air

Traditional Usage in Rootwork:  aids in the development of intuitive gifts, wish granting, increases spirit communication 

Traditional Medicinal Usage:  aids in digestion, alleviate stomach and liver problems

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[mbsposts]

20200729  Stone Mountain State Park North Carolina

Wild Potato Vine   Ipomoea pandurata

[mlpazlima]

Albugo ipomoea-panduratae. Ferrugem branca da batata doce. Phakopsora vitis - ferrugem da uva. Boletim Tecnico estudante Mariane Oliveira. #fitopatologia1 #fitopatologia #doencasdeplantas #doençasdeplantas #labfitopatologia #laboratorio #microscopio #microscope #cortetransversal #rust #white rust #ferrugembranca #pustula #esporangia #phytopathology #phytopatologische #plantdisease #plantpatogen #plantpathology #batata doce #ipomoeabatatas #ifgoianourutai (em Laboratorio De Fitopatologia E Microbiologia)

[moniquill]

This is just fancy convolvulus that wishes it was as nutritious as ipomoea pandurata!

ipomoea alba

[rjalker]

but if we get seeds from the wild potato vine will we be able to grow potatoes?? does it grow potatoes??? the flowers are so pretty does it even have enough energy to create tubers??