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Dioscorea communis

Botanic Family

Dioscoreaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) Caddick & Wilkin

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Albania
• Algeria
• Austria
• Belgium
• Bulgaria
• Canary Islands
• Cyprus
• France
• Germany
• Great Britain
• Greece
• Hungary
• Iran
• Iraq
• Italy
• Kyrgyzstan
• Libya
• Morocco
• Palestine
• Portugal
• Romania
• Spain
• Switzerland
• Tunisia
• Turkey
• Yugoslavia

Natural Habitats

• Woodland edge
• scrubland
• hedgerows.

Flowering Times

• May-Jul (GB) Jan
• Feb (Canary Is)

Fruiting Times

Herbaceous glabrous tuberous perennial twiner with subterranean bulb, with greenish-white or yellowish flowers in axillary racemes to 100mm long, bright red berries to 12mm long, male flowers 5mm, female flowers 4mm diameter

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Mobot
• net
• FOBI
• Bodkin
• The Plant List 2
• NYBG
• Kew