Talk:Dioscorea alata

message: ::User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 17:28, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'm trying to get some photos for this page and for the Siopao page. I have connections, they are just busy with school work. I actually have some Siopao at home .... Andrew Powell 21:32, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Old discussions

message: This is because Ube is a very different type of food that is uncommon in the west.  These "non-filipino" restaurants have not been welcomely introduced because of its diversity.  It may be the fact of cultural racism or difference that it is not used.  Ube is a harmless and delicious "vegetable" that you can enjoy at almost any filipino restaurant or oriental market in treats or deserts.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.62.155.146 (talk) 00:26, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
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message: This item needs to be rationalised with the entry under Yam, see Yam_(vegetable)#D._alata. Earthlyreason (talk) 14:14, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need to cross ref or merge 

message: On May 2, 2011 anon user at Ip address 87.194.61.202 placed this comment under a link in the internal links sect. on the article page:
:(There appears to be no information about ube or purple yam at the site listed above.)
After checking the site, the comment turned out to be correct, so I removed the link. Also removed the comment to here. Hamamelis (talk) 10:33, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stray comment from article page 

message: Purple yam →  – This plant is known by many common names in English, "purple yam" being not even the most common, and possibly not very common from the references I have found so far. Please see Wikipedia:NC_(flora)#Scientific_versus_common_names for guidance. Hamamelis (talk) 12:25, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: And confusion, since 'real' common names, i.e. ones that are traditional and not just made up for the sake of having a common name, are often very local, and certainly national. Peter coxhead (talk) 18:47, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

text: I've moved the article as requested. It seems the article's previous title came about due to its original author(s) being filipino: "purple yam" was quoted as being the English translation of the Tagalog word for the plant, ube. --Hadal (talk) 06:36, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 

message: The photographs are not D. alata.  They are another Dioscorea, likely bulbifera.  This is a serious error and should be remedied, as D. builbifera is poisonous and should not be eaten, except for the nonpoisonous cultivated varieties.  Ufdionysus (talk) 01:24, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I've replaced the picture. -- Obsidi♠n Soul 03:41, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Foliage pictures are wrong 

message: Dioscorea alata is commonly white, and referred to as "white yam" and "winged yam."  The population of invasive D. alata in Florida are all white.  A purple variety exists in cultivation. This is one of the things called "ube".  I don't know the origin of it and it probably exists in a wild population somewhere in its native range, but I don't know the frequency.  I've been told the "real" ube is a purple variety of Dioscorea bulbifera.  A purple type of sweet potato, (genus Ipomoea), with white skin, is also commonly referred to as "ube."  That sweet potato is also known as the Okinawa purple sweet potato.  Ufdionysus (talk) 01:35, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Ube or Ubi originates from the word for the plant in the Philippines. Dioscorea alata is predominantly purple in its native range (Southeast Asia). It is one of the oldest cultivated root crops, and the white varieties originated from S.E. Asian crops carried by Austronesian settlers as they colonized the islands of the Pacific. The Hawaiian name and Tahitian for the plant (uhi and ʻufi) are still similar to the Filipino word. All of them are Austronesian languages. While the white variety may be predominant in N. America, its distribution there is not native.-- Obsidi♠n Soul 03:29, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elucidating purple yam and ube 

message: Anybody know if the colour is due to anthocyanins? 79.79.251.126 (talk) 12:43, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anthocyanins 

message: Kinampay seems to be about a specific cultivar of Dioscorea alata. I think it should be merged into this article. Peter coxhead (talk) 09:12, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. I also agree with your reversion because of the improper tone and the incorrect inclusion of the Okinawan sweet potato (which is actually Ipomoea batatas). But D. alata does grow aerial bulbils, much like D. bulbifera and other Dioscorea species. USDA reports seem to indicate that it's rare and are cylindrical in shape in D. alata (but it's flawed as they only seem to describe the Florida variety).-- OBSIDIAN†SOUL 16:59, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge [[Kinampay]] here? 

message: This articles states 
    [Dioscorea alata]  is sometimes confused with ... the Okinawa sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas cv. Ayamurasaki).
However, the sweet potato article states that 
     In Japan, both sweet potatoes (called "satsuma-imo") and true purple yams (called "daijo" or "beni-imo") are grown.
And the Yam_(vegetable)#Japan article states that 
     In Okinawa, purple yams (Dioscorea alata) are grown. This is known locally as daijo (大薯) or beniimo (紅芋). 
The Japanese edition of Wikipedia also has a redirect from Beni-imo to Dioscorea alata. All of these statements are unsourced, but the first seems to be at odds with all the others. My understanding is that both sweets potatoes and D. alata are grown in Okinawa, and I've added this to the sentence above. Computermacgyver (talk) 10:24, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Okinawa Beni-imo 

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message: I have updated the pronunciation of ube to reflect a leading  instead of . All the sources I found online (pronunciation videos, dictionary sound bites, and Lexico) all agreed on the weak vowel. Ube is also the name of a port city in Japan which does seem to be pronounced with the strong vowel, but as best I can tell they are not related, the name for the yam is a loanword from Tagalog. I'd be glad to see citations or info from anyone more familiar with Tagalog than I, but other sources seemed unanimous that I went ahead and changed it. There did seem to be variance on the latter vowel, so I added an alternate pronunciation for that.
--The Human Spellchecker (talk) 20:17, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation of Ube