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Jícama or Mexican turnip
Pachyrhizus erosus
About
Pachyrhizus erosus, commonly known as jícama or Mexican turnip, is a native Mesoamerican vine, although the name jícama most commonly refers to the plant's edible tuberous root. It is in the pea family (Fabaceae). Pachyrhizus tuberosus and Pachyrhizus ahipa are the other two cultivated species in the genus. The naming of this group of edible plants can sometimes be confusing, with much overlap of similar, or the same, common names.
- Family
- Fabaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Pachyrhizus erosus
- Slug
- pachyrhizus-erosus
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Pachyrhizus
- Species
- erosus
- Wikidata QID
- Q517283
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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