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  2. Yam (vegetable) - Wikipedia

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    Yellow yam has yellow flesh, caused by the presence of carotenoids. It looks similar to the white yam in outer appearance; its tuber skin is usually a bit firmer and less extensively grooved. The yellow yam has a longer period of vegetation and a shorter dormancy than white yam. The Kokoro variety is important in making dried yam chips. [17]

  3. Dioscorea cayenensis - Wikipedia

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    Dioscorea cayenensis is a species of yam in the genus Dioscorea that is a widely consumed West African domesticated crop. Dioscorea rotundata is sometimes treated as a subspecies, and sometimes also as a separate species. [1] Common names include Guinea yam, yellow yam, and yellow Guinea yam.

  4. List of sweet potato cultivars - Wikipedia

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    cream to bright yellow: An heirloom variety [10] US Jewel North Carolina State University? copper [5] deep orange [5] First cultivated in 1970. [5] Commonly called "yams" in the United States to distinguish them from O'Henry sweet potatoes. US Kandee / K1716 Kansas State College [4] La 1946 Cross 17 × 1 (yellow yam × Nancy Hall) [4] reddish ...

  5. Oxalis tuberosa - Wikipedia

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    Oxalis tuberosa is a perennial herbaceous plant that overwinters as underground stem tubers.These tubers are known as uqa in Quechua, [1] oca in Spanish, yams in New Zealand and several other alternative names.

  6. Dioscorea villosa - Wikipedia

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    Dioscorea villosa. Dioscorea villosa flower petal color is commonly known to be green to brown, or white. Lengths of the flower petals range from 0.5 to 2 mm (1 ⁄ 32 to 3 ⁄ 32 in).

  7. Yam - Wikipedia

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    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

  8. Dioscorea floridana - Wikipedia

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    Dioscorea floridana, the Florida yam, is a plant species native to Florida, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. It grows in wet and sandy places at low elevations. [3] [4] Dioscorea floridana is a perennial vine twining over other vegetation and spreading by means of yellow underground rhizomes. Stems can reach a height of over 4 m off the ground.

  9. Chinese yam - Wikipedia

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    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 .