Giant potato flower
 

This is the largest I have grown so far, it is huge[IMG]http://i850.photobucket.com/albums/ab61/wingnutpeaches/DSCF2398.jpg[/IMG]!

Looks just like it's relative, the petunia!

That is a very nice looking flower for a potato plant.

[QUOTE=salix;284279]Looks just like it's relative, the petunia![/QUOTE]

Very interesting information! I didn't know they were related until you mentioned it. The flower does look like a petunia.

I some with deeper darker color, but this one is almost twice the size as most.[IMG]http://i850.photobucket.com/albums/ab61/wingnutpeaches/DSCF2406.jpg[/IMG]

Potatoes aren't particularly close in relation to morning glory. They're much more related to tomatoes. Sweet potatoes, however, are in the same genus as the morning glory.

I don't have any flowers that big, but I have one that's a similar shade and one that's lighter in color. Both have at least one berry on them, so I'm pretty pleased, but they don't leave the kind of impression your giant flower does. What a great decorative bonus feature!

Something I meant to relate last year - a few small volunteer plants popped up from my bed of TPS seedlings. While cleaning up the beds, I noticed that one of the flowering TPS volunteers which just happened to end up on the top of the wheelbarrow had a very piercing sweet scent, what a nice bonus!

My potato patch is quite sweet smelling at the moment.

I should try to notice the smell of the plants.Last year one of Tom's Squat Orange TPS plants looked just like a tomato plant but I knew it was potato. Was quite beautiful too..

After reading posts a week ago, I checked the flowers on my Kennebec potato plants and they do have a scent to them. I never would have guessed that flowers on potato plants had a scent.

Potato flowers having a scent, wow, what a bonus. I love items that have or provide more than one use.

The scent varies from VERY nice to not so pleasant depending on variety.Some have little or no scent.

Good sized flower alright,what's the variety??

It is pokipsie. A deep eyed fingerling type, with burgundy colored skin with brown striping/mottling. A real neat variety.