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Dioscorea japonica

Dioscorea japonica

Dioscorea japonica Thunb.
Engl.: Japanese yam, Chinese yam.
Deu.: Japanischer Yams.
Jap.: yama no imo.

Dioscorea.

Botanical name: 
Dioscorea
Dioscorea alata
Dioscorea bulbifera
Dioscorea cayenensis
Dioscorea deltoidea
Dioscorea divaricata
Dioscorea esculenta
Dioscorea hastifolia
Dioscorea hispida
Dioscorea japonica
Dioscorea nummularia
Dioscorea oppositifolia
Dioscorea pentaphylla
Dioscorea piperifolia
Dioscorea polystachya
Dioscorea quinqueloba
Dioscorea spicata
Dioscorea tomentosa
Dioscorea trifida

Classic texts: Sturtevant 1919.

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Vegetables Used as Food in Japan.

Botanical name: 
Arctium lappa
Oryza sativa
Amorphophallus konjac
Brassica rapa ssp. rapa
Canavalia ensiformis
Canavalia gladiata
Colocasia esculenta
Dioscorea japonica
Glycine max
Ipomoea batatas
Phaseolus vulgaris
Phyllostachys nigra
Raphanus sativus
Setaria italica
Solanum melongena
Sorghum bicolor
Vigna radiata

Classic texts: Journals: AJP 1884.

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