Dioscorea heptaneura
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Cara preto
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Tubers, Root
The tubers are cooked as food, fried and ground as a coffee substitute, or eaten as a vegetable.
Where to Find It
A tropical plant.
Brazil, South America,
How to Identify
A cultivated tropical yam in the Dioscoreaceae family with edible tubers and roots, known as Cara preto.
Other Information
It is a cultivated food plant.
Notes
There are about 650 species of Dioscorea.
Names & Synonyms
Inhame roxo
Dioscorea heptaneura f. latisinuata Uline ex R. Knuth
References (4)
- Chu, E. P., Figueiredo-Ribeiro, R. C. L., 1991, Native and Exotic Species of Dioscorea Used as Food In Brazil. Economic Botany, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 467-479
- Kermath, B. M., et al, 2014, Food Plants in the Americas: A survey of the domesticated, cultivated and wild plants used for Human food in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. On line draft. p 309
- Mansfeld's Encyclopedia of Agrocultural and Horticultural Crops. Hanelt, P. (ed) p 2159
- Uphof, 1968,
