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Our culture and language has for decades confused Sweet Potatoes (Morning Glory Family 'Ipomaea') with the true Yams (Dioscorea Family). Now that it is getting hot in Tampa, underground tubers of my five different Yam cultivars are sending up their dramatic shoots like cobras rising from a basket! What's cool is that when I dig up a twenty pounder, I always miss a piece of tuber, which sprouts in summer and in two years creates ANOTHER twenty pounder undergeound! No wonder subtropical and tropical peoples have relied on them for centuries. Plus once dug up the monster tuber needs no refrigeration. Fried, boiled or baked, the true yams taste like an excellent potato but are much more nutritious. www.johnstarnesurbanfarm.blogspot.com