Crop categories

Tuber vegetables

Tuber vegetables - Potato — Tuber vegetables – Potato

The category “tuber vegetables” includes plants of which the tubers are used as food. Tubers are modified plant structures (usually roots or stems) that are enlarged to store nutrients. Examples of tuber vegetables are: potato and cassava.

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Examples of tuber vegetables

Tuber vegetables - Taro root — Tuber vegetables – Taro root

Tuber vegetables - Beets — Tuber vegetables – Beets

Tuber vegetables - Sweet potato — Tuber vegetables – Sweet potato

Tuber vegetable - Cassava — Cassava – By Thamizhpparithi Maari [CC BY-SA 3.0],
from Wikimedia Commons

Tuber vegetables - Jicama — Tuber vegetables – Jicama