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Old 04-08-2010, 10:54 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Yams ?

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Rusty Hinge wrote:

Just guessing, but I wouldn't expect a yam to be hardy - the tuber(s)
may escape frost if protected though.

ISTR reading soewhere that bindweed is the only British member of the
family.


Black bryony, if I recall. The usual bindweeds are convolvulaceae.


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Nick Maclaren.