SC - Latin Extra Credit (Pre-Period)

[Alex Wollangk]

Yucca root and Dioscorea root (yam) look very similar.  I don't know about
the taste and texture.

Bear 


> Are we talking about a longish, chocolate-brown skin, waxy-shiny, hairy
> root tips, and maybe 3 to 3 1/2 inches in diameter, with a creamy,
> sometimes even chalky, white interior? I wonder if we could be talking
> about yucca root, which tastes something like white potatoes, but has a
> fibrous quality similar to a parsnip...
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> Adamantius
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