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Dioscorea bulbifera
Air potatoes are unique plants that grow in warm places. They have round, potato-like bulbs that can be found above the ground, making them special and fun to discover!
Habitat: Urban areas
The air potato is a fast-growing vine with large, heart-shaped leaves. It produces distinctive, rough, greenish-brown, potato-like growths called bulbils directly on its stems. Its small flowers are often overlooked.
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Common
Danger
2/5 · Low
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Invasive air potato vines can grow over 20 feet in a single season! Wow!
Its scientific name, Dioscorea, honors an ancient Greek botanist and physician.
One mature air potato vine can produce hundreds of new "baby" bulbils each year!
Some air potato varieties can be peeled, boiled, and eaten like regular potatoes!
The air potato can grow 'baby potatoes' (bulbils) on its vine that drop off, sprouting new plants super fast!
Air potato has strong twining stems that help it rapidly climb up trees and structures, reaching for sunlight.
This plant can sprout new vines from fallen bulbils or root pieces, making it very hard to get rid of!

Lilioceris cheni
This beetle munches on air potato leaves, helping to control its spread.
Apis mellifera
Honey bees visit its small flowers, helping the plant reproduce.
Colletotrichum gloeosporioides
This fungus can cause leaf spots and blight, weakening the plant.
Climbing or vine plants are characterized by a growth habit that allows them to ascend upwards by twining, tendrils, or adhesive roots.
Flowering plants are any plants that produce flowers as part of their reproductive cycle.
Fruit-bearing plants produce fruits, which are the mature ovaries of flowering plants containing seeds.
Edible plants are those parts of a plant that are considered safe for human consumption.
Rapid growing plants exhibit accelerated growth rates, quickly increasing in size and biomass within a short period.
This habitat trait indicates species that can coexist with humans in urban and suburban environments, utilizing man-made structures and green spaces.
Invasive species are non-native organisms that cause harm to the environment, economy, or human health.
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Danger
2/5 · Low
Do not eat any part of the plant without asking an adult first.
300-2000 cm
200-1000 cm
0.3-0.6 cm
Late summer to fall
Yes
Moderate
Perennial
Insect
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