English: Air yam, Bitter yam
Sanskrit: Varahi
Hindi: Dukkar kand
Malayalam: Adathappu-അടതാപ്പ്
Air potato is a perennial vine, its leaves are simple, heart-shaped, and length up to 20 feet. The leaves are simple, arranged oppositely, heart-shaped, margin entire, and with tapered apex. The flowers are small and white. Yam brownish-black, rough outer, bulb-like part in the leaf axis and tubers beneath the ground both are edible, it resembles potato so, it is called air potato, which can be consumed like other yams and cultivated as a food crop. The tubers can be used by boiling in the water like any other yams used. It may grow up to 150 feet high with the support plant. It grows extremely quickly almost 8 inches per day. New plants developed from the bulb-like part form a new plant.
Leaf Arrangement
Shape-Heart-shaped | Margin-Entire | Venation-palmate |
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Useful plant parts:
The potato-like bulbs of leaves and roots.
Medicinal uses:
Used as a food for diabetic patients, it contains proteins, and calcium, to treat conjunctivitis, diarrhea, and dysentery and as a pest control.
How to prepare medicines:
It can be consumed by boiling in the water like other yams consumed
It is recommended for diabetic patients
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