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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...

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

bois (french), are a member of the onion family (Alliaceae). Both the white root and the broad green leaves are edible. They are found from the U.S. state...

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...

inconspicuous flowers at the end of the growing season. Unlike many other root vegetables domesticates by the Inca (ulluco, oca), the yacón is not photoperiod...

family Asphodelaceae. The rhizomes of some species can be eaten as root vegetables, including A. cirratum, A. milleflorum, A. minus, and A. strictum. A...

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...

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...

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...

beet), as a leaf vegetable (chard or "Bull's Blood"), or as a root vegetable ("beetroot", "table beet", or "garden beet"). Major root vegetable cultivars include:...

sites. The stout, sweet root of Abronia fragrans and Abronia latifolia, sometimes over 60 cm long, can be eaten as a root vegetable. Grow in sandy peat. Propagation...

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...

or turnip mustard is a plant widely cultivated as a leaf vegetable (see mizuna), a root vegetable, and an oilseed. Cultivated varieties of Brassica rapa...

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...

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...

from Europe and Asia. Several species bear tubers edible as a starchy root vegetable that are collected from the wild or cultivated as crops in North America...

Convolvulaceae. Its large, starchy, sweet tasting tuberous roots are an important root vegetable (Purseglove, 1991; Woolfe, 1992). The young leaves and shoots are sometimes...

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...

similar vegetables also called "turnip", see Turnip (disambiguation). The turnip or white turnip (Brassica rapa var. rapa) is a root vegetable commonly...