salsilla

salsilla

noun
1. tropical vine having umbels of small purple flowers and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute; Colombia 
2. tropical vine having pink-and-yellow flowers spotted purple and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute; West Indies to northern South America 
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