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Firstly, the correct name for this plant is Dioscorea polystachya.
Next is is an exotic invasive plant. In South Carolina it is l...Read More
Chinese yam: Dioscorea polystachya, Invasive Plant Atlas:
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This plant is invasive and all but impossible to eradicate. It has taken me years, maybe a decade, to get this plant out of my PHILADELPH...Read More
This plant makes a 12-15' vine in the first year, and really takes off in the second to well over 20'. Plants can be grown in a large con...Read More
I am always looking for vines to grow in the spring-flowering bushes because, frankly, many of those bushes don't look like much the rest...Read More
Plants are slow to start in the first year, with no flowers but a few bulbils. In the second year (I left them in the ground over winter...Read More
Seen these around forever, pretty invasive and the flowers smell just like big red chewing gum, very noticeable just passing by them.
Planted on the north side of the house close to the foundation (full shade). It dies back every year at frost and returns in the same spo...Read More
Chinese Wild Yam, Cinnamon Vine Dioscorea oppositifolia is naturalized in Texas and other States and is considered an invasive plant in Texas.
This plant produces plenty of tubers to share. If some escape, the plantlets are easy to pull up and repot. Insignificant blooms are su...Read More
Hortus Third indicates it is root-hardy to USDA Zone 5, and can persist for years.
This plant is terribly invasive. Each litle "potato" grows. It covers and smothers everything. It is impossible to get rid of. It is a...Read More
Plant produces small bulbs at the leaf axils in the fall and these are what are planted, they all grow. The first year the flowers did n...Read More