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Re: Off topic question, Dioscorea sp.!

From: "Derek Burch" derek at horticulturist.com> on 2001.12.31 at 04:17:45(7999)
Joe, I think that Dioscorea bulbifera is a good
name published by Linnaeus - and is the name most often applied to our little
monster (no wings on the stem, aerial tubers and undeground tubers that are
often somewhat paired and with coarse fibrous roots all over them). "Coarse" was
a carefully chosen word in this instance, as you will know if you have dug one
of the hairy devil's up. What a believer in the doctrine of signatures would use
them for is clear, but just how boggles the imagination.
This plant, by the way, is one of the two or three
that the Exotic Pest Plant Council managed to get right by including it
on their list. Derek

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