Unusual Root Vegetables
Explore the history and ethnobotany of bizarre bulbs, tremendous tubers, curious corms, rare roots, and rum rhizomes used for food and medicine.
Jícama
A toxic vine with tasty roots.
Bambara Groundnut
A subterranean pod producing peanut cousin who drinks pain and eats suffering.
OCA
Colorful & Glossy Tubers from the Andean Highlands
Konjac
A Corpse-Flower with EDIBLE CORMS
Manroot: 100 lb Sweet Potato
A giant NATIVE Sweet-Potato that is DROUGHT-TOLERANT, COLD HARDY, and ORNAMENTAL
Breadroot
A potato-like TUBER-bearing, NATIVE, DROUGHT-TOLERANT food plant.
Bulbous Spring Parsley: Tasty
A NATiVE, early-Spring, DROUGHT-TOLERANT root vegetable.
Sarsaparilla
A MEDICINAL root for TONICS
Chicory
A MEDICINAL root for bitter FLAVORING
Cinnamon Vine
COLD HARDY, ORNAMENTAL yam that grows potato-like BULBILS