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Perennial climbing plant that grows up to 3 m high. There are up to 800 species of yam plant. It flowers from September to October. The up to 2 m long rhizomes, sweet-tasting roots, see yam root, are used as a phytopharmaceutical, see Rhizoma Dioscoreae villosae, but also as food, especially in South America, Africa and the Caribbean
