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Climbing or Chinese Yam (fall color)

Dioscorea bulbifera

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Description:

Herbaceous, invasive, twining, high climbing vine that covers shrubs and trees, long-petioled heart-shaped leaf with an elongated tip and smooth margins about 12 cm long, we did not see any hanging tubers, turning yellow and dying right now

Fruit and seeds. June to September (and year-round). Aerial tubers (bulbils) resembling miniature potatoes being the most notable fruit with 1 to 4 occurring at leaf axils that drop and sprout to form new plants. Shape spherical (air and Chinese) to oblong (water). Texture smooth (air) to warty (Chinese) to rough (water). Air yam to 5 inches (12 cm) long, Chinese yam to 1 inch (2.5 cm) long, and water yam to 1.2 inches (3 cm) long and 4 inches (10 cm) wide. Very rarely have capsules and winged seeds, which have questionable viability.

Habitat:

woods

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PublishedNovember 17, 2015

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