Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I'm pleased to have stumbled upon your station today. Someone in my region is selling these and I wanted to know a little more about how they're used medicinally as well as well as their edibility and growth habits. Subscribed to your station now. Thank goodness there are people in the world like you! I see this was posted in 2013, so I hope you're still doing well and staying healthy/strong alongside the earth's gifts.
I’m in SW Ohio … and this year, my SEEK app says I have this Chinese Yam / Cinnamon Vine You speak of… NEIGHBOR’s complained last 2 years, that it made my house look weedy, so I had to yank it up and remove it; HOWEVER this year (2023) it grew back ten-fold.. I’ll have to make an arbor of sorts and train it to grow on that NOW THAT I KNOW WHAT IT IS…. Thankyou for your video post… a wealth-of-information … glad I found your post, I subscribed to your channel..
Thank you. I had some in a stew yesterday for the first time and I wanted to know more about it. It was purchased fresh and it tasted very good in the stew. Although they were mucilaginous while shaving the skin off with a peeler, it was not at all slimy in the stew. Just don't over cook them. I also read that among starchy vegetables, it has an incredibly low glycemic index of only 17.43.
I have been looking for more info on the Japonica version of this. It seems to be same in many ways other than grown in Japan. Growing in the tube is a good ideal. I have a friend in Bhutan who dug out something like this also. it was strange looking rather than uniform. I have not asked him how he eats it. I really enjoy your videos. Thank you. E :)
If someone were to never dig up the big root will the vine and yam berries continue to get bigger and bigger every year? Or is there generally a limit to how big they can get?
Discorea Batatas!!! Great, I was so confused... I didn’t realize this was also known by a different Latin name. I just bought 8 bulbetts off eBay and now I’m trying to figure out how to root them. Anyone ever tried? Thank you for your great videos!!!
Just discovered your channel. Thank you. I planted some bulbils a couple of days ago along the fence line for our duck pen. Is there any advice you can give me that was not in your video? Thanks!
Hi Joe: Thanks for posting this. Is this different from something simply called the 'Chinese potato' ? It seems to looks different from what I saw at an international market.
I grow this here but the roots do not get so large . They are about an inch or 2 at most like small potatotos, I read it might be a Bulbiforous not Opppisita .I do not recall it getting flowers either .I live in the plains of Southern Delaware and got the starts about 20 years ago from FEdco in Maine as Cinnamin vine but they no longer carry it . I sell the bulblets and have eaten the roots and bulblets :)sharon
Hormone precursors, if you do lots of chemistry on them. Most essential oils can be made from pine sap (turpentine). That doesn't mean you should eat or use it in its original form (except as a solvent).
FYI these plants are invasive in the US. They can quickly invade riparian areas and your garden. The little air potatoes easily fall off and seed themselves. So take advantage and eat these invasives when you find them, but it is not wise to propagate them.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I'm pleased to have stumbled upon your station today. Someone in my region is selling these and I wanted to know a little more about how they're used medicinally as well as well as their edibility and growth habits. Subscribed to your station now. Thank goodness there are people in the world like you! I see this was posted in 2013, so I hope you're still doing well and staying healthy/strong alongside the earth's gifts.
he passed away a little bit ago:(
I’m in SW Ohio … and this year, my SEEK app says I have this Chinese Yam / Cinnamon Vine You speak of… NEIGHBOR’s complained last 2 years, that it made my house look weedy, so I had to yank it up and remove it; HOWEVER this year (2023) it grew back ten-fold.. I’ll have to make an arbor of sorts and train it to grow on that NOW THAT I KNOW WHAT IT IS…. Thankyou for your video post… a wealth-of-information … glad I found your post, I subscribed to your channel..
Would you sell them?
This is a veritable botany class, brother. Thanks for your time.
I just found some near the waters edge in Missouri. Yippeee 😊
Thank you for sharing this video!
Thank you. I had some in a stew yesterday for the first time and I wanted to know more about it. It was purchased fresh and it tasted very good in the stew. Although they were mucilaginous while shaving the skin off with a peeler, it was not at all slimy in the stew. Just don't over cook them. I also read that among starchy vegetables, it has an incredibly low glycemic index of only 17.43.
I have been looking for more info on the Japonica version of this. It seems to be same in many ways other than grown in Japan. Growing in the tube is a good ideal. I have a friend in Bhutan who dug out something like this also. it was strange looking rather than uniform. I have not asked him how he eats it.
I really enjoy your videos. Thank you. E :)
Me too. Have you found a place to buy bulbils?
It grows here in northern WI. My Asian wife bought it at the Asian store.
If someone were to never dig up the big root will the vine and yam berries continue to get bigger and bigger every year? Or is there generally a limit to how big they can get?
Hello Joe,
Thanks for this video. I'm experimenting growing this in tubes here in Qld Australia. Wondering how your tube harvest went?
Could you let us know how yours is going?
I'm in NSW Australia.
just browsing through youtube. ty for the video. very informative :)
I am treasuring these videos. Thank you.
Discorea Batatas!!! Great, I was so confused... I didn’t realize this was also known by a different Latin name. I just bought 8 bulbetts off eBay and now I’m trying to figure out how to root them. Anyone ever tried? Thank you for your great videos!!!
Very easy to root from my experience here in sub tropics Australia. How did you go?
The bulblets that fall on the ground in Fall will come up in Spring here in morthern Delaware
How can people order seeds and plants from you ?
It common in Nigeria in the forest... But there also big yams ... So yummy when you cook the big yams 😋
very informative video
Thank you for the great information!
Got them here in my front yard, in Southern New York
Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Just discovered your channel. Thank you.
I planted some bulbils a couple of days ago along the fence line for our duck pen. Is there any advice you can give me that was not in your video? Thanks!
Very good. Another plant that we have here on site, time to tame......
Hi Joe: Thanks for posting this. Is this different from something simply called the 'Chinese potato' ? It seems to looks different
from what I saw at an international market.
Can you eat the leaves also like other yams?
Are you thinking of sweet potatoes? Dioscorea leaves are not edible (they have raphides like in arums).
I grow this here but the roots do not get so large . They are about an inch or 2 at most like small potatotos, I read it might be a Bulbiforous not Opppisita .I do not recall it getting flowers either .I live in the plains of Southern Delaware and got the starts about 20 years ago from FEdco in Maine as Cinnamin vine but they no longer carry it . I sell the bulblets and have eaten the roots and bulblets
:)sharon
One can also stack old tires (free) to grow yams or even potatoes .
Thanks for this clear and excellent video!
Found this in SW Virginia.
Hormone precursors, if you do lots of chemistry on them. Most essential oils can be made from pine sap (turpentine). That doesn't mean you should eat or use it in its original form (except as a solvent).
FYI these plants are invasive in the US. They can quickly invade riparian areas and your garden. The little air potatoes easily fall off and seed themselves. So take advantage and eat these invasives when you find them, but it is not wise to propagate them.
That's a beautiful video of Shan Yao, thanks for making it. What type of camera and lens did you use to make this?
gracias
Su young Park
I am interesting these videos I am a plant breeder I am collecting purple yams if you have a flowering Yam I want to buy some from you
driveway idea, very clever permaculture design(:
Is this the one the Japanese call Yamaimo or Nagaimo, Mountain Potato?
luxomni yeah mate!
It is
Reliably Hardy here in Akron, Ohio ( Zone 6 ).
M in South Africa. I really want some of that. I orderd some from an American company. Cost a lot of money. It never reached me.
Nice
funni we fry it with beef
This doesn't seem to be a popular food.