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Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
HOME > Plant list (植物リスト) > Dioscoreaceae (ヤマノイモ科) > Dioscorea tenuipes
Dioscorea L. (ヤマノイモ)Himedokoro (ヒメドコロ, 姫野老), Sweet mountain yamEdodokoro (エドドコロ, 江戸野老) Lifeform: dioecious, perennial vine Distribution: China - Korea - Japan (south to Kanto District) Habitat: grasslands, thickets and sunny forests |
Chromosome number: 2n = 20, 30 or 40 Use: edible (rhizomes) |
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[1-3] in an openland beside Nanki Kumano GeoPark Center, western Japan, on June 25 2024.