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| Collector | Balslev, H. |
| Number | 4347 |
| Collected with | and E. Asanza |
| Country | Ecuador |
| Subpart | NAPO |
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| Locality | Río Cuyabeno just below the inlet of Río Tarapui, cultiveted around the house of Victoriano Criollo. Garden of native house in tropical rain forest. |
| Coordinates | 0° 5' S 76° 10' W |
| Minimum elevation (m) | 230 |
| Maximum elevation (m) | 230 |
| Start date | 1983/07/26 |
| End date | 1983/07/26 |
| Family | Convolvulaceae |
| Identification | Ipomoea batatas (L.)Lam. |
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| Field notes | Siona: "Yají". Spanish: "Batata", "Camote", (more rarely used). Scandent herb covering relatively large areas at different places around the house. The root forms an elongate tuber which is used as food. The whole tuber may be boiled and eaten as such. The raw tuber is also used for sweetening the yuca for breadmaking. A couple of tubers are mashed as an metalplate in which holes have been made a nail. This mashed mass is then added to what appeared to be some 10 kilograms or more of mashed yuca, and the mixture was left over night. Linton Cox suggested that the sugar in the "batata" would not be enough to sweaten so much yuca and that an enzymatic process may be involved. |
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