air potato

[air puh-tey-toh]

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noun

a vine, Dioscorea bulbifera, of southeastern Asia, having tubers weighing several pounds and growing in the leaf axils.

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Researchers also want to know if folks see air potato leaf beetles, which eat the plants and reduce the scourge.

The air potato leaf beetle - a bright red insect about the size of a pinky fingernail - has a big appetite for the air potato plant.

That was for a Chinese beetle to eat back the air potato vine.

The air potato is not native to Florida, which makes it an invasive species.

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