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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.
Archidendron pauciflorum is a legume tree with a size of 18–25 m, has a spreading crown and bipinnate leaves (up to 25 cm) and greyish smooth bark. [2] [7] [8] The young leaves have a wine-red colour and are edible.
Daun ubi tumbuk (Indonesian for "pounded cassava leaves") is a vegetable dish commonly found in Indonesia, made from pounded cassava leaves. In Indonesian , daun means leaf, ubi refers to cassava, and tumbuk means pounded.
Ubi caritas" is a hymn of the Western Church, long used as one of the antiphons for the washing of feet on Maundy Thursday. Its text is attributed to Paulinus of Aquileia in 796. The traditional melody probably also stems from the late 8th century.
Cyperus rotundus is a perennial plant, that may reach a height of up to 140 cm (55 in).The names "nut grass" and "nut sedge" – shared with the related species Cyperus esculentus – are derived from its tubers, that somewhat resemble nuts, although botanically they have nothing to do with nuts.
[2] [3] The specific name esculenta is Latin for 'edible'. [2] The common name "cassava" is a 16th century word from the French or Portuguese cassave , in turn from Taíno caçabi . [ 4 ] The common name "yuca" or "yucca" is most likely also from Taíno, via Spanish yuca or juca .
Ubi panis ibi patria is a Latin expression meaning "Where there is bread, there is (my) country" (or home, or homeland). According to J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur in "What is an American", the third of his Letters from an American Farmer , this is the motto of all European immigrants to the United States . [ 1 ]
Klepon is a boiled rice cake filled with liquid palm sugar (gula jawa/merah/melaka) and coated in flaked coconut. [6] The dough is made from glutinous rice flour, sometimes mixed with tapioca (or sweet potato alternatively) [5] and a paste made from the leaves of the pandan or dracaena plants — whose leaves are used widely in Southeast Asian cooking — giving the dough its green colour.