Wild yam is a common name for several plants and may refer to:
Dioscorea dregeana, native to southern Africa
Dioscorea japonica, native to eastern Asia
Dioscorea villosa, native to eastern North America
Index of plants with the same common name
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Wildyam is a common name for several plants and may refer to: Dioscorea dregeana, native to southern Africa Dioscorea japonica, native to eastern Asia...
from purple yam, other common names include ten-months yam, water yam, white yam, winged yam, violet yam, Guyana arrowroot, or simply yam. Dioscorea alata...
Common names of Dioscorea villosa include wildyam, Atlantic yam, common wildyam, wildyam-root, yellow yam, colic root, and rheumatism root. Dioscorea...
wildyam, is a related variety of Japanese yam that is used as an ingredient in soba noodles. In Japanese, it is known as yamaimo (山芋, "mountain yam")...
polystachya or Chinese yam (simplified Chinese: 山药; traditional Chinese: 山藥), also called cinnamon-vine, is a species of flowering plant in the yam family. It is...
of yam used for pounding yam is the African yam which is common in Africa and some parts of Asia. It is also known as puna yam, true yam or white yam. The...
as the air potato, air yam, bitter yam, cheeky yam, potato yam, aerial yam, and parsnip yam) is a species of true yam in the yam family, Dioscoreaceae...
bases, or enzymes of saponins, extracted from the tubers of Dioscorea wildyam species, such as the Kokoro. The sugar-free (aglycone) product of such...
Dioscorea sericea (common names: wildyam, colic-root, rheumatism-root) is a type of climbing tuberous geophyte in the family Dioscoreaceae. It is native...
afaséɛ "inferior wildyam" Afu Akan Afúw "yam" or "plantation" Ahpetti Akan O-peyi A certain amulet Akam Akan A wild and inferior yam Anansi Akan, Ewe...
Dioscorea dregeana, the wildyam, is a perennial creeper that is native to the eastern parts of southern Africa. It is commonly used and traded as a traditional...
Charles Plumier after the ancient Greek physician and botanist Dioscorides. WildYam (Dioscorea) is a vine that is invasive, deciduous, and herbaceous. [not...
Originated in Uonuma, Niigata Jinenjo soba: flavored with wildyam, Japanese yam or Chinese yam flour Yomogi soba: flavored with mugwort Sarashina soba:...
and Global in Canada. The season concluded on May 24, 2023, when Yamil "YamYam" Arocho was named the winner of the season, defeating Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt...
other steroid hormones such as progesterone; for example in Dioscorea wildyam the sapogenin diosgenin, in the form of its glycoside dioscin. The ginsenosides...
for high dosages.: 1346 Diosgenin, which is present in fenugreek and wildyam, affected maturation, but that wasn't enough evidence for this indication...
million tonnes of yam from 1.5 million hectares, representing 73.8 percent of total yam production in Africa. According to 2008 figures, yam production in...
"Final report of the amended safety assessment of Dioscorea Villosa (WildYam) root extract". International Journal of Toxicology. 23 (Suppl 2): 49–54...
wheatgrass or the wheatgrass diet can cure or prevent disease". Wildyam (or Chinese yam) – types of yam, the roots of which are made into creams and dietary supplements...
Simon Yam Tat-wah (Chinese: 任達華; born 19 March 1955) is a Hong Kong actor and film producer. He received international acclaim for his performances in...
sold over the counter contain too little progesterone to be effective. Wildyam (Dioscorea villosa) extract creams are not effective since the natural...
The Mexican barbasco trade was the trade of the diosgenin-rich yam species Dioscorea mexicana, Dioscorea floribunda and Dioscorea composita which emerged...
Atlit Yam is a submerged ancient Neolithic village off the coast of Atlit, Israel. It has been carbon-dated as to be between 8,900 and 8,300 years old...
underground stem tubers. These tubers are known as uqa in Quechua, oca in Spanish, yams in New Zealand and a number of other alternative names. The plant was brought...
Vining plants and lianas are found in abundance: virgin's bower, wildyam, moonseed, wild cucumber, woodbine, poison ivy, carrion flower, and grape. Sand...
traditional type of forest garden.[citation needed] Some plants, such as wildyam, work as both a root plant and as a vine. Ground covers are low-growing...
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