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The scientific name is Dioscorea alata. Of the family Dioscoreaceae.Yam is the common name for the Greater Yam, Asiatic Yam, White Yam, Winged Yam and Water Yam. Sweet potatoes are often called sweet yams, but they are not yams.
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∙ 15y agoDioscorea Species
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∙ 12y agoDioscorea rotundata
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What is the scientific name for the Sweet Potato?
Dioscorea rotunda, is the scientific name for the "white yam", and Dioscorea cayenensis, is the "yellow yam."
What is the scientific name of yam?
Dioscorea rotundata
What is the scientific name for an yam plants?
Dioscoria
What is the scientific name or taxonomic classification of the poisonous plant Chinese yam?
The scientific or taxonomic name would be Dioscorea batatas.
What are the uses of lesser yam?
The esser yam is a tropical climbing plant which have the bulb containing starch. It is cultivated for food by the locals. It scientific name is Dioscorea esculenta.
What is the scientific name for the white pelican?
The scientific name for the Great White pelican is Pelecanus onocrotalus
What is the scientific name for white clam shell?
The scientific name for white clam shells is typically determined by the specific species of clam. For example, the scientific name for the Atlantic surf clam, commonly found along the East Coast of North America, is Spisula solidissima.
What are white wolves scientific name?
The scientific name of White wolves are: Canis Lupus Arctos
Another name for sweet potato?
Potatoes are also call common potatoes, Irish potatoes and spuds(slang). Yams can be called Greater Yam, Asiatic Yam, White Yam, Winged Yam, Water Yam. Nigerians call the yam adamwanga.Note: Sweet potatoes are not yams.
What white substance comes from yam?
Starchy nectar that the yam produces.
What Is the white tail deers scientific name?
the scientific name of a white tailed deer is Odocoileus virginianus.
What is the scientific name of white angels?
Wrightia antidysenterica is the scientific name of the white angel plant.
