India (Kumaon region, western Himalayas): axillary tubers cut into pieces, steeped in water, and boiled prior to eating. Maharashtra State (Thane District): the Warli tribe eat the roasted roots.

Sierra Leone; Nigeria (northern): eaten as a famine food. Method of preparation and part of plant used not given [probably tuber]. Mozambique (Macossa and Tambara districts): tubers dug up, cleaned ...

Speak of fossils, and dinosaurs first come to mind. A quaint fossilised leaf is one of the most recent finds throwing light on India's past. The leaf fossil is the first of Dioscorea yams from Asia ...