- Scientific name
- Dioscorea alata
- Common name
- Yam
- Kingdom / family
- Dioscoreaceae
- Genus
- Dioscorea
- Category
- plantae
- Primary role
- crop
- Crop type
- vegetable
- Edible
- yes
- Temperature
- 22 to 32 °C
- pH
- 5.5 to 6.5
- Precipitation
- 1000 to 2000 mm
- Soil texture
- 3
- Light
- 5/10
- Native regions
- ["Assam","Bangladesh","Bismarck Archipelago","Borneo","Cambodia","Christmas I.","East Himalaya","India","Jawa","Lesser Sunda Is.","Malaya","Myanmar","Nepal","New Guinea","Philippines","Sulawesi","Sumatera","Thailand","Vietnam"]
- Invasive regions
- ["Amazonia colombiana: sur del departamento del Vichada; el suroriente del Meta; todo el territorio de los departamentos de Amazonas, Caquetá, Guainía, Guaviare, Putumayo y Vaupés; la Bota Caucana; y las vertientes amazónicas de Nariño (la parte alta de los ríos Guamuez, Sucio, San Miguel y Aguarico)","Alabama","Andaman Is.","Angola","Bahamas","Belize","Benin","Bolivia","Brazil West-Central","Burkina","Burundi","Cameroon","Caroline Is.","Central African Republic","Chad","China South-Central","China Southeast","Colombia","Comoros","Cook Is.","Costa Rica","Cuba","DR Congo","Dominican Republic","El Salvador","Ethiopia","Fiji","Florida","French Guiana","Gabon","Georgia","Guatemala","Guinea-Bissau","Guinea","Gulf of Guinea Is.","Guyana","Haiti","Honduras","Jamaica","Japan","Kazan-retto","Leeward Is.","Madagascar","Malawi","Maldives","Mali","Marianas","Marquesas","Mexico Southeast","Mexico Southwest","Mozambique","Nansei-shoto","Nicaragua","Niue","Northern Territory","Panamá","Peru","Pitcairn Is.","Puerto Rico","Queensland","Rwanda","Santa Cruz Is.","Senegal","Seychelles","Society Is.","Southwest Caribbean","Suriname","Taiwan","Tanzania","Togo","Tonga","Trinidad-Tobago","Tubuai Is.","Vanuatu","Venezuelan Antilles","Venezuela","Wallis-Futuna Is.","Windward Is.","Zambia"]