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Question: Dear Sir\ Madam I am an Agricultural Engineer specialized Agronomist, today i am working as an Extension Officer and I …

• Question

  Dear Sir\ Madam I am an Agricultural Engineer specialized Agronomist, today i am working as an Extension Officer and I will plan a database related crop rotation. Please, i need to classify the botanical germination habit for the following crops: Potato(Solanum tuberosum), Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas), Garlic (Allium tuberosum), Mallow (Malva parviflora), Thyme (Thymus vulgaris). meaning if is it epigeal and, or hypogeal. Please, advice. Mohunnad Massimi Jordan

  Answer

  Dear Mohunnad, Go Botany is a website dedicated to wild (i.e., non-cultivated) plants of New England (northeastern United States). The questions you are seeking answers to are best directed to an agricultural extension service or professor of agriculture. That said, we try to help everyone when we can. So, Solanum tuberosum is epigeal, Ipomoea batatas is epigeal, Allium tuberosum is epigeal, Malva parviflora is epigeal, and Thymus vulgaris is probably also epigeal (most "dicot" plants, save for conspicuous exceptions, like legumes, are epigeal). Best wishes.