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  2. Dioscorea villosa - Wikipedia

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    Dioscorea villosa is a species of twining tuberous vine which is native to eastern North America.It is commonly known as wild yam, colic root, rheumatism root, devil's bones, and fourleaf yam. [4]

  3. Yam (vegetable) - Wikipedia

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    Yam is an important dietary element for Nigerian and West African people. It contributes more than 200 calories per person per day for more than 150 million people in West Africa, and is an important source of income. Yam is an attractive crop in poor farms with limited resources. It is rich in starch, and can be prepared in many ways.

  4. Dioscorea japonica - Wikipedia

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    Jinenjo (自然薯, "wild yam") is another kind of Dioscorea japonica, which is native to fields and mountains in Japan. In Chinese, Dioscorea japonica is known as yě shānyào (野 山藥) which translates to English as "wild Chinese yam" or simply "wild yam". [citation needed] Another name is Rìběn shǔyù (日本 薯蕷; literally ...

  5. Dioscorea alata - Wikipedia

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    Dioscorea alata – also called ube (/ ˈ uː b ɛ,-b eɪ /), ubi, purple yam, or greater yam, among many other names – is a species of yam (a tuber). The tubers are usually a vivid violet - purple to bright lavender in color (hence the common name), but some range in color from cream to plain white.

  6. Chinese yam - Wikipedia

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    The tororo is the mucilaginous purée made by grating varieties the Chinese yam (nagaimo, ichōimo, tsukuneimo) [17] or the native Japanese yam. [30] The classic Japanese culinary technique is to grate the yam by grinding it against the rough grooved surface of a suribachi , which is an earthenware mortar . [ 31 ]

  7. Mexican barbasco trade - Wikipedia

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    Root of barbasco Dioscorea mexicana. The Mexican barbasco trade was the trade of the diosgenin-rich yam species Dioscorea mexicana, Dioscorea floribunda and Dioscorea composita which emerged in Mexico in the 1950s as part of the Mexican steroid industry.