Yam (vegetable)
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Yam is the common name for some plant species in the genus Dioscorea that form edible tubers.
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
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
Yam (vegetable)
…Canarian Spanish ñame, which derived from Fula, one of the West African languages during trade. However, in Portuguese, this name commonly refers to the taro plant (Colocasia esculenta) from the genus Colocasia, as opposed to Dioscorea. The main derivations borrow from verbs meaning "to eat". True yams have…
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In the Mithila region of the Indian subcontinent, it is known as Kanch Gachh
Flower
Leaves