Can you identify this for me please?

Mel Mcbride

I found this on top of a potato pot I emptied days ago. Its NOT true potato seed, I have those, this is nothing like those. The dying stem they're attached to is slimmer than the dying stems of my spuds. The pot is next to pots of corn, an onion in seed (lovely and tall!) some salad, chives, and dill, sugar beet, but looks nothing like any of those as you can see.

They're VERY purple and are sprouting green leaves/or ? 

 

 

fidgetbones

They look like small potato tubers to me.

Mel Mcbride

Yeah its on there now!

fidgetbones

Potato seed pods are round are look like tomatoes. (same family but poisonous)

They look like tubers that havn't had the time to swell very much.

BobTheGardener

Potatoes grow tubers from the stem if those are buried (or partially so) and tubers turn green then purple on exposure to sunlight.  I think that's what has happened here.

Mel Mcbride

I have other tiny potatoes that I left in the pot, and they just went green, just as they normally do. I've grown spuds for years, never had any go purple, and never had any with green shoots coming out of them. Also the stem is not like spuds stems, much thinner.

I just been looking online and there are actually purple sugar beets, I didn't know this! But, those grow one per stem.. so.. still not sure.

nutcutlet

Sugar beet doesn't grow like that whatever colour it is

They look like mini spuds to me

Dovefromabove

BobTheGardener wrote (see)

Potatoes grow tubers from the stem if those are buried (or partially so) and tubers turn green then purple on exposure to sunlight.  I think that's what has happened here.

I agree - small potatoes.