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
Songe Réunion
In the Mithila region of the Indian subcontinent, it is known as Kanch Gachh
Flower
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Yam (vegetable)
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Yam is the common name for some plant species in the genus Dioscorea that form edible tubers.
Taro
…stems and petioles. Taro corms are a food staple in African, Caribbean, Oceanian, East Asian, Southeast Asian and South Asian cultures (similar to yams). Colocasia esculenta is a perennial, tropical plant primarily grown as a root vegetable for its edible, starchy corm. The plant has rhizomes of different…
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