of the vegetable is composed of a much softer substance ranging in color from white or yellow to purple or pink in mature yams. The name "yam" appears...

polystachya or Chinese yam (simplified Chinese: 山药; traditional Chinese: 山藥), also called cinnamon-vine, is a species of flowering plant in the yam family. It is...

from purple yam, other common names include ten-months yam, water yam, white yam, winged yam, violet yam, Guyana arrowroot, or simply yam. Dioscorea alata...

lily yam) Conopodium majus (pignut or earthnut) Dioscorea spp. (yams, ube) Dioscorea polystachya (nagaimo, Chinese yam, Korean yam, mountain yam, white...

Look up yam in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Yam or YAM may refer to: Yam (vegetable), common name for members of Dioscorea Taro, known in Malaysia...

million tonnes of yam from 1.5 million hectares, representing 73.8 percent of total yam production in Africa. According to 2008 figures, yam production in...

gardens. "Everyday Mysteries: Yam". Library of Congress, United States of America. 2011. Lists of vegetables All Vegetable name in English and Hindi with...

as the air potato, air yam, bitter yam, cheeky yam, potato yam, aerial yam, and parsnip yam) is a species of true yam in the yam family, Dioscoreaceae...

esculenta) 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...

purple yams (called daijo or beni-imo) are grown. Boiling, roasting and steaming are the most common cooking methods. Also, the use in vegetable tempura...