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The plants can also spread vegetatively from the root system. It is occasionally grown as a root vegetable for its edible tuber. The sweet, starchy tubers...

compounds, a property shared by other vegetables that remain crisp in this manner, including the tiger nut and lotus root. The corms are rich in carbohydrates...

Bunium persicum or black cumin is a plant in the family Apiaceae. Dried B. persicum fruits are used as a culinary spice in Northern India, Tajikistan and...

more flexibility in day lengths. The oca can be prepared like most root vegetables by being boiled, baked or fried. In the Andes it is part of stews and...

armies by the Inca Emperors, "that they should forget their wives" Template:Vegetable-stub Template:Brassicales-stub...

Ethiopia's most important root crop, a traditional staple crop in the densely populated south and southwestern parts of Ethiopia. The root is the main edible...

good to provoke urine; and so also is the root, but it does not perform it so forcibly as the seed doth. The root being dried and beaten into powder, and...

inconspicuous flowers at the end of the growing season. Unlike many other root vegetables domesticated by the Indigenous Peoples of the Andes (olluco, oca), the...

perennial plant grown in the Andes for its edible tuber, which is eaten as a root vegetable. It is a major food source there. The tuber is rather peppery in flavor...

Root vegetables are underground plant parts used as vegetables. They are called root vegetables for lack of a better generic term, but include both true...

of the family Lamiaceae. Although its edible tuber can be grown as a root vegetable, it is a rare sight in the garden. From a cultivation standpoint this...

Pennywort; Whorled Pennywort; Shield Pennywort found in S. and North America, West Indies Creeping plants with unusual leaves, hence the common name. Marshy...

propagated by seeds. Some people use the young unopened flowering heads as a vegetable. The plant, if left alone, will spread into a clump with many flowering...

cassava root flour. Tapioca is an essentially flavourless starchy ingredient, or fecula, produced from treated and dried cassava (manioc) root and used...

spurflowers. Several species are grown as ornamental plants, as leaf vegetables, as root vegetables for their edible tubers, or as medicine. Plectranthus species...

primarily as a root vegetable, secondarily as a leaf vegetable. The ulluco is one of the most widely grown and economically important root crops in the Andean...

serpent root, viper's herb, viper's grass or simply Scorzonera, is a perennial member of the sunflower family (Asteraceae), cultivated as a root vegetable...

is burdock makizushi (sushi filled with pickled burdock root rather than fish; the burdock root is often artificially colored orange to resemble a carrot)...

Echinodorus is a genus of aquatic plants found in the western hemisphere, common name: burhead. Echinodorus is derived from Ancient Greek echius – rough...

Sagittaria latifolia is a plant found in shallow wetlands and is sometimes known as broadleaf arrowhead, 'duck potato', 'Indian potato', or 'wapato', ...