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Dioscorea

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Synonyms
Testudinaria
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Botanical details
Family
Dioscoreaceae
Native to the UK
No
Genus

Dioscorea

Genus description

Dioscorea can be evergreen or deciduous, twining perennials with tuberous roots and simple or palmate leaves and small bell-shaped greenish or yellow flowers in racemes from the leaf axils

Name status

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