Sweet Caroline Medusa™ Black Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas) | Proven Winners® New Variety 2026

Sweet Caroline Medusa™ Black Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas) | Proven Winners® New Variety 2026Looking for bold, dramatic foliage with a twist? Meet Sweet Caroline Medusa Blackthe gardens answer to gothic glam. With deeply lobed, palm shaped leaves so dark theyre nearly midnight, this sweet potato vine brings the drama in the most delightful way. Unlike your typical trailing vines, Medusa Black keeps things tidy with a neat, mounded habit thats more Boston fern than backyard sprawl. It forms a dense, billowy cloud of overlapping leaves that

or a low-maintenance container thriller—wherever you plant it

Produces double orange flowers from planting to hard frost

Produces fragrant amethyst purple flowers throughout summer

Tolerates heat and drought once established

offering full-sized

wider-than-tall habit

but will still produce fruit even in the shade– something uncommon for fruit plants

10-12 inches tall and 24-28 inches wide at maturity

And since the plants set little seed

One of our long time favorite classic yellow tones

Each bloom is a dense cluster of crisp white flowers

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