Bitter yam
बाराही कन्द, गेंठीபண்ணுக்கிழங்குഅടതാപ്പ്
Dioscorea bulbifera L.
- light
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- water
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- tall
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- wide
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Dioscoreaceae
Also called Air yam, Potato yam
Formerly Dioscorea anthropophagorum, Dioscorea crispata, Dioscorea heterophylla, Dioscorea hoffa, and 11 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Climbing tuberous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & Subtrop. Old WorldKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, height, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (9)
- Chinese
- 山慈菇, 山芋, 零余子
- Simplified Chinese
- 黄药, 山慈姑, 黄药子
- Igbo
- Ona
- Bangla
- বনআলু, বন মাছআলু, কাঠ আলু
- Hindi
- बाराही कन्द, गेंठी
- Slovenian
- gomoljasta dioskoreja
- Tamil
- பண்ணுக்கிழங்கு
- Marathi
- डुकरकंद, मटारू, वराह कंद, वर कंद, मटाळू
- Malayalam
- അടതാപ്പ്
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0 us
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