Identification Guide For Invasive Exotic Plants of the Florida Keys

Scientific Name:
Common Name(s):
Dioscorea bulbifera
Air Potato
Height:
Leaves:
Flowers:
Bark:
Fruit:
Other:
Treatment:
Vine, can creep up trees
Alternate broad heart shapes leaves, long petioles, leaf veins normally
originating from one point.
Small and unremarkable.
N/A
Small partially winged seeds.
Each tuber is a viable plant. All tubers must be bagged (black plastic) and
disposed of properly or burned.
Basal bark treatment of 10% Garlon 4 applied to stems emerging from tubers
will be translocated to the underground tuber. Hand pulling vines and bulbils
is a viable option in the winter.
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