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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.
In Okinawa, purple yams (Dioscorea alata) are grown. This purple yam is popular as lightly deep-fried tempura, as well as being grilled or boiled. Additionally, the purple yam is a common ingredient of yam ice cream with the signature purple color. Purple yam is also used in other types of traditional wagashi sweets, cakes, and candy. [citation ...
"Yams generally have a rough, scaly, and brown-colored skin with white to purple flesh," Harvey said. "They are often long and cylindrical shaped and can have off-shoots called 'toes.'
Sweet potato may have spread so rapidly in the Pacific because Polynesian gardeners saw these plants as an improvement on already grown Dioscorea species, such as the purple yam. [4] The plant was likely spread between Polynesian islands by vine cuttings rather than by seeds. [5]
In fact, a yam's flesh, in both texture and flavor, is more similar to a russet potato than a sweet potato. Yams can also grow much larger than sweet potatoes, too—more than five feet long and ...
You wait all year to dig into your mom’s Thanksgiving yams with mini marshmallows. While they may be delicious, it turns out they aren’t yams at all. Even though the words “sweet...
Dioscorea bulbifera (commonly known as the air potato, air yam, bitter yam, cheeky yam, potato yam, [2] aerial yam, [3] and parsnip yam [4]) is a species of true yam in the yam family, Dioscoreaceae. It is native to Africa, Asia and northern Australia. [ 1 ]
Dioscorea polystachya or Chinese yam (simplified Chinese: 山药; traditional Chinese: 山藥), also called cinnamon-vine, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the yam family. It is sometimes called Chinese potato or by its Korean name ma. [3] [2] It is also called huaishan in Mandarin and wàaih sāan in Cantonese.