Data sheet
View crop Data sheet EcoPortSolanum tuberosum
| Description | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Life form | herb | Physiology | multi stem |
| Habit | erect | Category | roots/tubers, medicinals & aromatic |
| Life span | annual | Plant attributes | grown on large scale |
| Ecology | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Optimal | Absolute | Optimal | Absolute | ||||
| Min | Max | Min | Max | Soil depth | medium (50-150 cm) | shallow (20-50 cm) | |
| Temperat. requir. | 15 | 25 | 7 | 30 | Soil texture | medium, organic | heavy, medium, light |
| Rainfall (annual) | 500 | 800 | 250 | 2000 | Soil fertility | moderate | low |
| Latitude | - | - | 20 | 60 | Soil Al. tox | ||
| Altitude | --- | --- | - | 2800 | Soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) | low (<4 dS/m) |
| Soil PH | 5 | 6.2 | 4.2 | 8.5 | Soil drainage | well (dry spells) | well (dry spells), excessive (dry/moderately dry) |
| Light intensity | very bright | very bright | very bright | cloudy skies | |||
| Climate zone | tropical wet & dry (Aw), tropical wet (Ar), steppe or semiarid (Bs), subtropical humid (Cf), subtropical dry summer (Cs), subtropical dry winter (Cw), temperate oceanic (Do), temperate continental (Dc), temperate with humid winters (Df), temperate with dry winters (Dw) | Photoperiod | short day (<12 hours), neutral day (12-14 hours), long day (>14 hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Killing temp. during rest | -1 | Killing temp. early growth | 0 |
| Abiotic toler. | Abiotic suscept. | ||
| Introduction risks. | poisonous to man or animals |
| Cultivation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Min | Max | |||
| Product. system | home garden, large scale/commercial | Crop cycle | 90 | 160 |
| Cropping system | Subsystem | Companion species | Level of mechanization | Labour intensity |
| ley cropping | ||||
| Uses | ||
|---|---|---|
| Main use | Detailed use | Used part |
| animal food (feed) | starch | roots |
| animal food (feed) | vitamins | roots |
| animal food (feed) | minerals | roots |
| food & beverage | starch | roots |
| food & beverage | vitamins | roots |
| food & beverage | minerals | roots |
| poison | mammals | fruits |
| poison | mammals | roots |
| poison | mammals | leaves |
| medicinal | muscular/skeletal applications | leaves |
| medicinal | immune system applications | leaves |
| medicinal | skin applications | roots |
| fuels | petroleum substitutes/alcohol | roots |
| fuels | alcohol | roots |