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Floristic Inventory of the Bahama Archipelago Database Online

Dioscorea bulbifera L.
Potato yam

Dioscorea bulbifera
Copyright by: Shirley Denton

Family: Dioscoreaceae

Group: Monocot

Perennation: Perennial

Habit: Vine

Substrate: Terrestrial

Native Status: Not Native, Naturalized

Native Range: Old World (Africa and Asia); an introduced weed elsewhere.

Map of Locations [currently Florida only]

Other data on Dioscorea bulbifera available from :

Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants
Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants

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Dioscorea bulbifera
Copyright by: Shirley Denton
Dioscorea bulbifera
Copyright by: Forest & Kim Starr
Dioscorea bulbifera
Copyright by: Keith J. Buttry, 2015
Bulbils of naturalized plants, Simpson Park, Miami, Florida
Dioscorea bulbifera
Copyright by: Forest & Kim Starr