What is this vegetable called in the United States?

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  • Love_2_Hike
    Love_2_Hike Posts: 103 Member
    its an Oca (Oxalis tuberosa), I cant grow them where I live.
    Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas), are very easy to grow and the leaves are edible too. There are white ones, purple ones and orange are most common.
    Yam (Dioscoreaceae), are common in Africa, they are larger in size, up to 5kg each
  • girlwithcurls2
    girlwithcurls2 Posts: 2,281 Member
    I think I've been lied to all this time... I thought we had both in Oregon, but after reading the other responses around the US, I highly doubt it. I'm going to have a good look next time I'm shopping.
  • Safari_Gal_
    Safari_Gal_ Posts: 1,461 Member
    edited September 2019
    We have been bamboozled by most grocery stores.. most of the orange flesh veggies are sweet potatoes - not yams.

    There are actually quite a few white fleshed sweet potatoes too/ there just are less known the the typical orange fleshed variety.

    Our mom and pop shop on the corner sells African Yams and Asian Yams/ ill have to update with a photo- they usually have a bark like texture to the skin.

    Tho I’m no yam expert - just along for the veggie ride here. :)

    The bottom photo - all sweet potatoes- no yams.

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