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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.
Dioscorea esculenta, commonly known as the lesser yam, is a yam species native to Island Southeast Asia and introduced to Near Oceania and East Africa by early Austronesian voyagers. It is grown for their edible tubers , though it has smaller tubers than the more widely-cultivated Dioscorea alata and is usually spiny.
Amorphophallus paeoniifolius, the elephant foot yam [4] or whitespot giant arum, [5] [6] is a tropical plant native to Island Southeast Asia. It is cultivated for its edible tubers in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Madagascar, New Guinea, and the Pacific islands.
It is sometimes called Korean yam. In Vietnam, the yam is called củ mài or khoai mài. When this yam is processed to become a medicine, the yam is called hoài sơn or tỳ giải. In the Ilocano of the northern Philippines it is called tuge. In Latin American countries it is known as camote del cerro or white ñame. In Manipuri it is called ...
Yam (vegetable), common name for members of Dioscorea Taro, known in Malaysia and Singapore as yam; Sweet potato, specifically its orange-fleshed cultivars, often referred to as yams in North America
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.
Yam festivals (8 P) Pages in category "Yams (vegetable)" ... (vegetable)" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. ... Wikipedia® is a ...
The best-known member of the family is the yam (some species of Dioscorea). The APG system (1998) and APG II system (2003) both place it in the order Dioscoreales , in the clade monocots . However, the circumscription changed in the APG II system, with the 2003 system expanded to include the plants that in the 1998 system were treated in the ...