Dioscorea spiculiflora

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What to Eat

Edible parts: Tuber, Root, Caution

Caution:

A tropical plant. It grows on limestone soils in dry tropical forests at low altitudes.

Belize, Central America, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama,

Countries: Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Jamaica, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Trinidad & Tobago, United States, St Vincent

A yam with rounded heart-shaped leaves, native to tropical limestone soils and dry forests at low altitudes.

There are about 650 species of Dioscorea. It contains sapogenins and sterols.

Names & Synonyms

Dioscorea friedrichsthalii R. Knuth

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