Dioscorea preussii

Botanical Description

Dioscorea preussii is a climbing plant with a perennial rootstock, producing vigorous, annual stems up to 30 metres long that twine left-handed around other plants for support[ 332 Title The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. Publication Author Burkil. H. M. Publisher Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. Year 1985 - 2004 ISBN Description Brief descriptions and details of the uses of over 4,000 plants. A superb, if terse, resource, it is also available electronically on the Web - see http://www.aluka.org/ ]. The roots are sometimes gathered from the wild in times of famine, a fibre is also obtained from the stems.