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Dioscorea dumetorum / Trifoliate yam / 杜氏薯蓣

  • Introduction
    Dioscorea dumetorum also known as the bitter yam, cluster yam, trifoliate yam, or three-leaved yam, is a species of flowering plant in the yam family, Dioscorea.It has distinctive trifoliate leaves, similar to the Indian three-leaf yam Dioscorea hispida. Each leaf has 3 to 7 veins per leaflet.The vine has ridged ascending prickles and a characteristic twining to the left. D. dumetorum grows up onto shrubs and reaches heights of about 7 meters. The vines grow annually from the underground tubers.The tubers of D. dumetorum are deeply lobed and occur in clusters just below the surface of the soil.The flower of the bitter yam is brown. Male flowers are arranged in complex branched structures while female flowers are arranged in spikes. The seeds are winged capsules that are oblong in shape.
  • Common name: / Trifoliate yam / 杜氏薯蓣
  • Taxonomy: Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Streptophytina; Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; Euphyllophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliopsida; Mesangiospermae; Liliopsida; Petrosaviidae; Dioscoreales; Dioscoreaceae; Dioscorea; Dioscorea cayenensis

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