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Chinese yam

Dioscorea polystachya

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) tysmith, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

28 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Tennessee.January 26, February 30, March 35, April 80, May 102, June 37, July 28, August 28, September 46, October 30, November 23, December 24.
United States4,382
Tennessee785
Virginia747
Georgia604
North Carolina573
Maryland567
China411
Kentucky321
Arkansas280
Taiwan272

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
Classmonocots · Liliopsida
Orderyams, colicroots, and allies · Dioscoreales
FamilyYam family · Dioscoreaceae
GenusCinnamon vines · Dioscorea

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Sources

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Practise Chinese yam with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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