Dioscorea Alata. D. alata is a vigorous twining herbaceous vine, which is an important edible tuber crop but also an invasive plant outside cultivated areas. Dioscorea alata Family: Dioscoreaceae Purple Yam, Winged Yam Origin: Southeast Asia.
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The edible D. alata has dark brown banana-shaped aerial bulbils (when it has them) while the inedible D. bulbifera has tan round ones that look.
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From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Jump to navigation Jump to search. Dioscorea alata has a winter dormant period when the stems die back to the ground.
