The original home of the sweet potato was the tropical regions of the Americas, but no one knows when it was introduced to China. Towards the end of the Ming dynasty, while Holland was occupying Taiwan, it was brought to Taiwan from Fukien Province on the mainland.
甘薯的原產地在熱帶的墨西哥，引入本地的年代已不可考，只知約在明末由福建傳到台灣。