Tuber
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Tubers are a type of enlarged structure that plants use as storage organs for nutrients, derived from stems or roots. Tubers help plants perennate, provide energy and nutrients, and are a means of ase
Ulluku (Ullucus tuberosus) tubers
Flowers and tuber of Anredera cordifolia
A young potato tuber
Freshly dug sweet potato plants with tubers
Yam (vegetable)
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Yam is the common name for some plant species in the genus Dioscorea that form edible tubers.
Tuber
…Stem tubers manifest as thickened rhizomes (underground stems) or stolons (horizontal connections between organisms); examples include the potato and yam. The term root tuber describes modified lateral roots, as in sweet potato, cassava, and dahlia. The term originates from the Latin tuber, meaning 'lump…
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