Dioscorea alata
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Dioscorea alata – also called ube, ubi, uwhi, purple yam, winged yam, or greater yam, among many other names – is a species of yam. The tubers are usually a vivid violet-purple to bright lavender, but
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Harvested purple yam tubers
Aerial bulbil of a white variety of D. alata
Ube and muscovado piayas from the Philippines
Taro
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Taro is a root vegetable. It is the most widely cultivated species of several plants in the family Araceae that are used as vegetables for their corms, leaves, stems and petioles. Taro corms are a foo
Dioscorea alata
…vivid violet-purple to bright lavender (hence the common name), but some range from creamy-white to plain white. Although it is sometimes confused with taro and the Okinawa sweet potato beniimo (紅芋) (Ipomoea batatas 'Ayamurasaki'), D. alata is also grown in Okinawa. Its origins are in the Asian and Oceanian…
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In the Mithila region of the Indian subcontinent, it is known as Kanch Gachh
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