洛阳农科所选育的甘薯新品种豫薯8号原系号洛薯87－13是以农家种蓬尾为母本，以农家种小白藤为父本，1987年通过有性杂交选育而成，1993年被河南省农作物品种审定委员会审定，1997年获省科技进步二等奖。特征特性该品种叶心形，茎蔓绿带紫，薯皮红色，薯肉白色，个别薯块少带紫 Luoyang Nongke selected new varieties of sweet potato Yushu 8, the original number of sweet potatoes 87-13 is the farmland Pteridophyte as the female parent, a kind of small white rattan as the male parent in 1987 by sexual cross-breeding and In 1993, it was examined and approved by Henan Province Crop Variety Approval Committee and won the second prize of provincial science and technology progress in 1997. Characteristics of the varieties of leaf-shaped heart, stems and green with purple, red sweet potato, potato white, individual potato with less purple