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ID 472
Crop ID Lesser Yam
Part Tuber
Use Category Food
Notes The tubers are eaten as a starchy staple, after cooking or roasting, and th... more
The tubers are eaten as a starchy staple, after cooking or roasting, and their taste is sweet and pleasant. Flour and starch are also extracted.
Metadata ID 7,723
ID 473
Crop ID Potato Yam
Part Tuber
Use Category Food
Notes The plant is often cultivated in tropical areas, mainly for its edible aeri... more
The plant is often cultivated in tropical areas, mainly for its edible aerial bulbs. Aerial tubers should be cooked.An agreeable taste, they can be boiled, baked, fried etc. They must be thoroughly cooked in order to destroy toxic alkaloids. Wild forms of the plant are always toxic raw, though selected cultivars have been developed that are much lower, or even free from, the toxins.
Metadata ID 7,724
ID 474
Crop ID Potato Yam
Part Tuber
Use Category Medicinal
Notes Both the tuber and the bulbil of wild races have medicinal uses. n particu... more
Both the tuber and the bulbil of wild races have medicinal uses. n particular they are used externally, usually as a poultice, to treat wounds, sores, boils and inflammations; in dressings for treating dermal parasitic and fungal infections; or crushed, mixed with palm oil, and massaged onto areas of rheumatism, and for troubles of the breasts and for jiggers. In India the tuber is considered to be diuretic and to be a remedy for diarrhoea and haemorrhoids.
Metadata ID 7,724
ID 475
Crop ID Water Yam
Part Tuber
Use Category Food
Notes The tubers and larger bulbils of D. alata are consumed by humans as a starc... more
The tubers and larger bulbils of D. alata are consumed by humans as a starchy staple, after cooking in various ways.
Metadata ID 7,734
ID 476
Crop ID Water Yam
Part Tuber
Use Category Medicinal
Notes D. alata is also used in traditional medicine in Southeastern Asia.
Metadata ID 7,734
ID 477
Crop ID Water Yam
Part Tuber
Use Category Feed (Forage/Fodder)
Notes Tubers and bulbils are also used as an animal feed resource.
Metadata ID 7,734
ID 478
Crop ID Yam (Dioscorea floribunda)
Part Tuber
Use Category Food
Notes The edible root is sometimes gathered from the wild for local use.
Metadata ID 7,758
ID 479
Crop ID Yellow Yam
Part Tuber
Use Category Food
Notes The tuber is used almost exclusively for human consumption.
Metadata ID 7,766
ID 480
Crop ID Yellow Yam
Part Tuber
Use Category Feed (Forage/Fodder)
Notes Only the peels of the tuber are fed to animals.
Metadata ID 7,766
ID 481
Crop ID Asiatic Bitter Yam/Gadung
Part Tuber
Use Category Food
Notes The tuber of D. hispida is the chief famine food of tropical Asia, as is D.... more
The tuber of D. hispida is the chief famine food of tropical Asia, as is D. dumetorum (Kunth) Pax for Africa. The tuber is poisonous because of a high content of the alkaloid dioscorine. Its preparation for food requires much time and skill and includes slicing, washing the fresh or boiled tuber in several changes of salt water, or in running water, and a final check on whether all poison has been removed.
Metadata ID 7,767
ID 482
Crop ID Asiatic Bitter Yam/Gadung
Part Tuber
Use Category Industrial
Notes Starch extracted from the tubers can be used for culinary or industrial pur... more
Starch extracted from the tubers can be used for culinary or industrial purposes, notably the manufacture of glucose.
Metadata ID 7,767
ID 483
Crop ID Asiatic Bitter Yam/Gadung
Part Tuber
Use Category Medicinal
Notes The pounded tubers are sometimes used externally as an antiseptic, and a de... more
The pounded tubers are sometimes used externally as an antiseptic, and a decoction is drunk to alleviate chronic rheumatism.
Metadata ID 7,767
ID 484
Crop ID Bush Yam
Part Tuber
Use Category Food
Notes The tuber should be cooked first. Seen mainly as a food for use in times of... more
The tuber should be cooked first. Seen mainly as a food for use in times of shortage, usually only the lower portion is eaten, and then only while still young. Prolonged soaking of the tuber is required before it can be eaten, not so much because of any traces of toxicity as because of the woodiness of the tissue.
Metadata ID 7,769
ID 485
Crop ID Bush Yam
Part Leaf
Use Category Medicinal
Notes The leaves are squeezed in water, which is then added to gin and taken as a... more
The leaves are squeezed in water, which is then added to gin and taken as a treatment for jaundice.
Metadata ID 7,769
ID 486
Crop ID Wild Yam
Part Tuber
Use Category Food
Notes The plant is widely cultivated in tropical areas of Asia for its edible roo... more
The plant is widely cultivated in tropical areas of Asia for its edible root.
Metadata ID 7,774
ID 487
Crop ID Wild Yam
Part Whole
Use Category Medicinal
Notes A decoction of the plant is applied to swellings.
Metadata ID 7,774
ID 488
Crop ID Yams
Part Tuber
Use Category Food
Notes The rural and local people who use them as food supplements make them edib... more
The rural and local people who use them as food supplements make them edible by different traditional practices.
Metadata ID 7,779
ID 489
Crop ID Yams
Part Tuber
Use Category Medicinal
Notes Dioscorea species with nutritive and antioxidant content not only enrich th... more
Dioscorea species with nutritive and antioxidant content not only enrich the diet of the local rural and local people but also make them ethnomedicinally important. Tubers of different species of Dioscorea are used for curing various diseases and ailments in different formulations.
Metadata ID 7,779
ID 490
Crop ID Black Kongu
Part Bark
Use Category Industrial
Notes Good source of valuable timber.
Metadata ID 7,786
ID 491
Crop ID Boilam Tree
Part Bark
Use Category Industrial
Notes The timber is used as mersawa.
Metadata ID 7,788

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