Sturtevant records its use elsewhere, but does not refer to its toxicity. Tanzania in the Mtwara, Lindi and Mahenge regions: plant is noted is noted as poisonous and “specially prepared.” ...

Provide sunny, well-drained sites. Part of the yam family, air potato (Dioscorea bulbiifera) is an annual, extremely invasive twining vine. Plants not only spread via underground, barely edible ...

Sierra Leone; Nigeria (northern): eaten as a famine food. Method of preparation and part of plant used not given [probably tuber]. Mozambique (Macossa and Tambara districts): tubers dug up, cleaned ...

Diosgenin, a secondary metabolite isolated from the Dioscorea spp. plant family, is an irreplaceable and ideal starting material for the synthesis of steroid hormone drugs. Dioscorea zingiberensis ...

However, interest in Dioscorea in the 1950s was triggered by US research on Mexican wild yams and a global search for similar plants. A South African botanist recorded in the 1910s that the plant ...

The leaf fossil is the first of Dioscorea yams from Asia and hints at a Gondwanan origin to these plants, claim scientists. When scientists R. C. Mehrotra and Anumeha Shukla from Lucknow's Birbal ...

Operation Dioscorea was organised by the Bukit Timah ... to five people to dig up and pull out 900kg worth of the Batman plant, a herbaceous vine that has large starchy underground tubers and ...

Yet, the invasive Zanzibar yam (Dioscorea sansibarensis) - described as the Batman plant for its bat-shaped leaves - is threatening the regeneration of Singapore's forests by depriving native ...