This is a new cultivar in a new series of cultivars of the Ornamental Sweet-Potato called the Solarpower Series developed from the Ball Seed Company. The ornamental variety of Sweet-Potato has white tubers instead of orange ones. I have never eaten them, but I find them at the end of each growing season in the North when I dig the plants out of the ground or take them out of pots after being killed by frost. We of the northern temperate regions use them as annuals, though they are perennial in their native Central America and other tropical areas. It is so easy to take stem cuttings and root them in water or moist medium for propagation. This specific cultivar of 'Red Heart' does have leaves that are mostly red with some copper and yellowish colorings. The leaves are heart-shaped and entire, not deeply lobed as the 'Solarpower Red' is. There are other Solarpower cultivars with black-purple and lime-colored leaves.

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