Abstract:
Sweet potato serves as main staple foodfor people in Jayawijaya. Many cultivars of sweet potatoes have been cultivated by Dani tribe in Kurulu as source food for their infant, children and adult as well as for animal feed especially pigs. The research was conducted at Woisila and Woisilo, Dany tribe Kurulu District, Jayawijaya. The aim of the research was to study the diversity of sweet potatoes tuber that cultivated by Dani tribe at Kurulu Districk as source offood for their infant and children. Ten cultivars of sweet potatoes tuber consumted by infant and children of Dany tribe was morphologically characterized. The result showed that nine of ten cultivar s produced tubers. The research also categorizes different character of tubers. These characters are: four different tuber shapes, four groups of tuber cortex thickness , three groups ofpredominant tuber skin colour, five groups of secundary tuber skin colour, five groups ofpredominant tuber flesh colour of tuber, three groups of secund ary tuber flesh colour, four types of secondary tuber flesh colour distribution, four types of tuber formation, two groups of tuber stalk, five groups of tuber number per plant, and three cultivars with tuber craking.
