| ID | Crop ID | Part | Use Category | Notes | Metadata ID |
| 472 | Lesser Yam | Tuber | Food | The tubers are eaten as a starchy staple, after cooking or roasting, and their taste is sweet and pleasant. Flour and starch are also extracted. | 7,723 |
| 473 | Potato Yam | Tuber | Food | The plant is often cultivated in tropical areas, mainly for its edible aerial bulbs. Aerial tubers should be cooked.An agreeable taste, they can be boiled, baked, fried etc. They must be thoroughly cooked in order to destroy toxic alkaloids. Wild forms of the plant are always toxic raw, though selected cultivars have been developed that are much lower, or even free from, the toxins. | 7,724 |
| 474 | Potato Yam | Tuber | Medicinal | Both the tuber and the bulbil of wild races have medicinal uses. n particular they are used externally, usually as a poultice, to treat wounds, sores, boils and inflammations; in dressings for treating dermal parasitic and fungal infections; or crushed, mixed with palm oil, and massaged onto areas of rheumatism, and for troubles of the breasts and for jiggers. In India the tuber is considered to be diuretic and to be a remedy for diarrhoea and haemorrhoids. | 7,724 |
| 475 | Water Yam | Tuber | Food | The tubers and larger bulbils of D. alata are consumed by humans as a starchy staple, after cooking in various ways. | 7,734 |
| 476 | Water Yam | Tuber | Medicinal | D. alata is also used in traditional medicine in Southeastern Asia. | 7,734 |
| 477 | Water Yam | Tuber | Feed (Forage/Fodder) | Tubers and bulbils are also used as an animal feed resource. | 7,734 |
| 478 | Yam (Dioscorea floribunda) | Tuber | Food | The edible root is sometimes gathered from the wild for local use. | 7,758 |
| 479 | Yellow Yam | Tuber | Food | The tuber is used almost exclusively for human consumption. | 7,766 |
| 480 | Yellow Yam | Tuber | Feed (Forage/Fodder) | Only the peels of the tuber are fed to animals. | 7,766 |
| 481 | Asiatic Bitter Yam/Gadung | Tuber | Food | The tuber of D. hispida is the chief famine food of tropical Asia, as is D. dumetorum (Kunth) Pax for Africa. The tuber is poisonous because of a high content of the alkaloid dioscorine. Its preparation for food requires much time and skill and includes slicing, washing the fresh or boiled tuber in several changes of salt water, or in running water, and a final check on whether all poison has been removed. | 7,767 |
| 482 | Asiatic Bitter Yam/Gadung | Tuber | Industrial | Starch extracted from the tubers can be used for culinary or industrial purposes, notably the manufacture of glucose. | 7,767 |
| 483 | Asiatic Bitter Yam/Gadung | Tuber | Medicinal | The pounded tubers are sometimes used externally as an antiseptic, and a decoction is drunk to alleviate chronic rheumatism. | 7,767 |
| 484 | Bush Yam | Tuber | Food | The tuber should be cooked first. Seen mainly as a food for use in times of shortage, usually only the lower portion is eaten, and then only while still young. Prolonged soaking of the tuber is required before it can be eaten, not so much because of any traces of toxicity as because of the woodiness of the tissue. | 7,769 |
| 485 | Bush Yam | Leaf | Medicinal | The leaves are squeezed in water, which is then added to gin and taken as a treatment for jaundice. | 7,769 |
| 486 | Wild Yam | Tuber | Food | The plant is widely cultivated in tropical areas of Asia for its edible root. | 7,774 |
| 487 | Wild Yam | Whole | Medicinal | A decoction of the plant is applied to swellings. | 7,774 |
| 488 | Yams | Tuber | Food | The rural and local people who use them as food supplements make them edible by different traditional practices. | 7,779 |
| 489 | Yams | Tuber | Medicinal | Dioscorea species with nutritive and antioxidant content not only enrich the diet of the local rural and local people but also make them ethnomedicinally important. Tubers of different species of Dioscorea are used for curing various diseases and ailments in different formulations. | 7,779 |
| 490 | Black Kongu | Bark | Industrial | Good source of valuable timber. | 7,786 |
| 491 | Boilam Tree | Bark | Industrial | The timber is used as mersawa. | 7,788 |