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Purple & Green Tree Collard

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Purple, Green,  and red veins Tree Collard 

Epazote (Chenopodium Ambrosioides / Dysphania Ambrosioides)

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Epazote (Chenopodium Ambrosioides / Dysphania Ambrosioides) is a Mexican culinary and  medicinal herb use as Tea and many Mexican traditional dish such as Chilaquiles, Enchiladas, Menudo, Quesadillas, Sopes, and Tamales. https://worldcrops.org/crops/epazote

ដំឡូងជ្វា ( Ipomea batatas)

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Growing purple sweet Potato from grocery produce. A bag sweet potatoes no signs of eyelets insight whatsoever. I  threw them in the pit,  buried about 1" bellow soil surface,  watered lightly to damp the soil slightly and left them to weather in a 90°F+ from 7am till 7pm and watching it grow. May 17th,  2020

ដំឡូងទៀន (Dioscorea polystachya)

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ដំឡូងទៀន in Khmer. (Dioscorea polystachya) commonly called Chinese yam / Wild Yam. Commonly mistaken for Nagaimo/ Japanese Mountain yam.  In my experienced in forage of food crops from the wild in Cambodia, I've encountered two different varieties that have the characteristics, in terms of tubers, outer skin, texture of flesh, twisted wing vines, and habitat. The only difference between the two that I recalled is that one variety produce a much smaller tubers than the other. Locally called  "Dum-Loang Teinn" for the smaller tubers variety.  And  "Dum-Loang Jr'owe" for the variety  that produce 2-3ft long tubers.  As for the specifications of the their names, I'm  unsure of which one is which. Because there's no information found online that I can to have notation of the difference between the two species. All I've found seemed to be written about the larger variety.  A perennial, an indingenouse food crop, and it is native to  Cambodia. Common