Air vines

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Known location:

Paradise River

Expanded Information[1]

  • Air tubers (potatoes) are not actually of the potato family but are in fact, yams.
  • There are cultivars grown as crops that you can eat, but they have a very bitter taste that is removed by boiling.
  • Both the underground tubers and aerial bulbils may contain a variety of toxic compounds. One of these compounds is called diosgenin and it is used to make synthetic steroids for the pharmaceutical industry.
  • They reproduce as clones. Even the tiniest bulbil can sprout a new plant.
  • As the vines grow up, out and around, they twine and twirl in a counter-clockwise pattern.
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