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Old 04-08-2010, 10:56 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Yams ?

Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article ,
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.


Ah, prolly.

But not to be eaten, whatever. (Another guess...)

Concise British Flora is *TOO* concise.

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Rusty