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Besides potatoes and Jerusalem artichokes, what are other edible tubers?
Are taro roots tubers? How about lotus roots? And are there any edible stem tubers?
5 Answers
- MetalplanttagLv 710 years agoFavorite Answer
Tubers fall into two groups, root tubers and stem tubers.
Root tubers include:
sweet potatoes
Conopodium majus
Mirabilis expansa
Cassava - Manihot esculenta
Stem tubers include:
potatoes
Apios americana
Plectranthus edulis
Oxalis tuberosa
Helianthus tuberosus
Taro is a corm but sometimes the side corms may be called "tubers"
Tuber magnatum is not a plant but a mushroom, so its not a plant tuber, but was given its name because the below ground growth looks like a tuber.
- spidermanLv 710 years ago
Cassava
Tiger Nuts (not a nut but the tuber of a type of papyrus)
And yes, taro plants do have tubers
Incidentally, Tuber magnatum is the Italian White Truffle, just ONE of which recently sold for £28000!
- Anonymous10 years ago
manioc
yams
sweet potatoes
Oca
Non-tuber root crops:
parsnips
beets/rutabaga
turnips
radishes
- Anonymous10 years ago
Yams
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