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Dioscorea villosa

devil's bones

Other common names
wild yam
colic root
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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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