salsilla

Noun
  1. Tropical vine having umbels of small purple flowers and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute;
    Colombia (synset 112440629)
    is a type of: vine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
    belongs to: bomarea, genus bomarea - large genus of tropical American vines having showy often spotted umbellate flowers; sometimes placed in family Liliaceae especially subfamily Alstroemeriaceae
    same as: bomarea salsilla
  2. Tropical vine having pink-and-yellow flowers spotted purple and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute;
    West Indies to northern South America (synset 112440383)
    is a type of: vine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
    belongs to: bomarea, genus bomarea - large genus of tropical American vines having showy often spotted umbellate flowers; sometimes placed in family Liliaceae especially subfamily Alstroemeriaceae
    same as: bomarea edulis

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