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'''Dioscorea bulbifera''' is a glabrous-leafed, non-spiny, perennial climbing plant. These stems scramble over the ground, or twine into the surrounding vegetation. The stems twine left-handed and produce aerial axillary bulbils.
==Uses==
{{Uses|Diarrhoea}}, {{Uses|Haemorrhoids}}, {{Uses|Fever}}, {{Uses|Purulent ophthalmia}}, {{Uses|Snakebite}}.
===Food===
Dioscorea bulbifera can be used in Food. Underground and aerial tubers are eaten raw, roasted, boiled or cooked as vegetable. Before the use they are washed thoroughly in running water<ref name="Forest foods of Western Ghat"/>.
==Parts Used==
{{Parts Used|Aerial tuberstuber}}, {{Parts Used|Root}}.
==Chemical Composition==
It contains the following chemical constituents - Beta-sitosterol, Daucosterol, Dioscin, Diosgenin, Pennogenin, Stigmasterol, Catechin, Myricetin, Quercetin, Kaempferol, Isorhamnetin.<ref name="chemical composition"/>
==Common names==
{{Common names|sa=Varahi kanda|en=|gu=Air potato, Yam|hi=Jamin Kand|kn=|ks=|ml=|mr=|pa=Heggenasu, Handigedde|ta=Ponnu Kilangu, Kaivalli kodi|te=Chedu Padddumpa}}
==Properties==
===Prabhava===
===Nutritional components===
Dioscorea bulbifera Contains the Following nutritional components like - Vitamin-C; Niacin (B3), Ribofl avin, Thiamine (B1); diosgenin, lucein, neoxanthin, auroxanthin and cyrptoxanthin; Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sodium<ref name="Forest foods of Western Ghat"/>.
==Habit==
===Flower===
{{Flower|||||Flowering from July to October}}
===Fruit===
{{Fruit||||||Fruiting from July to October}}
===Other features===
{{Propagation|Seeds}}, {{Propagation|Cuttings of tubers}}.
==How to plant/cultivateCultivation Details==A plant of the moist, lowland tropics. It grows best in areas where annual daytime temperatures are within the range 20 - 30°c, but can tolerate 12 - 38°c.<ref name="How to plant/cultivate"/>. Dioscorea bulbifera is available through July-March<ref name="Forest foods of Western Ghat"/>.
==Commonly seen growing in areas==
==References==
<references>
<ref name="chemical composition">[Chemistry]Journal paper - South African Journal of Botany - Dioscorea bulbifera L. (Dioscoreaceae): A review of its ethnobotany, pharmacology and conservation needs</ref>
<ref name="Leaf">[Morphology]</ref>
<ref name="How to plant/cultivate">[http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Dioscorea+bulbifera Cultivation]</ref>
<ref name="Forest foods of Western Ghat">"Forest food for Northern region of Western Ghats" by Dr. Mandar N. Datar and Dr. Anuradha S. Upadhye, Page No.68, Published by Maharashtra Association for the Cultivation of Science (MACS) Agharkar Research Institute, Gopal Ganesh Agarkar Road, Pune</ref>
</references>
