| Dioscorea hispida Dennst. |
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- Family:
- Dioscoreaceae
- Common name:
- Intoxicating yam (English), Asiatic bitter yam (English), Nami (Filipino)
- Local name:
- Namo (Tau-buid Mangyan)
- Indication:
- Pesticide
- Plant part used:
- Tuber
- Method of Preparation:
- Get some tuber and scrape.
- Direction for use:
- Spread the scraped tuber to the ground.
- Additional information:
- Not advisable to eat the root crop because it is poisonous. Can cause severe headache and even death to whoever eat the root crop.
- Informant:
- FGD
- Place gathered:
- Sitio Safa, Barangay Sabang, Oriental Mindoro
- Gathered by / Date gathered:
- Dando LRA, Dando SH
- Abstracted by:
- Dando LRA, Dando SH
- Date abstracted:
- 20/07/2013
- Province:
- Oriental Mindoro (Tribe Tau-Buid)