Dioscorea bulbifera

Climber

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Not known

Family: Dioscoreaceae
Height: 10 m / 33 ft
Sun, Semi-shade
Light, Medium and Heavy Soil
Moist

Plant Rating

Edible Uses: 4 of 5
Medicinal Uses: 2 of 5
Other Uses: 0 of 5

Native Habitat

Aerial Yam, Air Potato Dioscorea bulbifera native habitat is Not known

Edible Uses

Aerial tubers - cooked. An agreeable taste, they can be boiled, baked, fried etc. They must be thoroughly cooked in order to destroy toxic alkaloids. Wild forms of the plant are always toxic raw, though selected cultivars have been developed that are much lower, or even free from, the toxins. The tubers are produced, and can be harvested, over a long period of time. Root - cooked. Roots are usually around 0.5kg, though they can be up to 1.5kg. They are not always produced by the plants. The inflorescences are apparently eaten.