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Botanical details
- Family
- Dioscoreaceae
- Native to GB / Ireland
- No
- Genus
Dioscorea
- Genus description
Dioscorea can be evergreen or deciduous, twining perennials with tuberous roots and simple or palmate leaves and small bell-shaped greenish or yellow flowers in racemes from the leaf axils
- Name status
Correct
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