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
Yam (vegetable)
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Yam is the common name for some plant species in the genus Dioscorea that form edible tubers.
Dioscorea alata
…Dioscorea alata – also called ube, ubi, uwhi, purple yam, winged 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 (hence the common name), but some range from creamy-white to plain white…
White yam variety, Dioscorea rotundata in local monday market in Kaduna, Nigeria
White yams at a retail market in Brixton, England, 2004
A yam
Freshly harvested purple yam (D. alata) sliced for cross-section