Comment on What’s the difference between yams and sweet potatoes?
wcdmanz@lemmy.nz 1 year agoAnd now do kūmara! They sometimes get called sweet potatoes in New Zealand
Comment on What’s the difference between yams and sweet potatoes?
wcdmanz@lemmy.nz 1 year agoAnd now do kūmara! They sometimes get called sweet potatoes in New Zealand
fubo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Looking them up, it sounds like they’re the same species as American sweet-potato, which is one more bit of evidence for early contact between Polynesians and South America.
ratumoko@kbin.social 1 year ago
I believe they are different. Kumala (in Fijian) is very different than a yam. Yams are more tubular, and the skin will skip off after and kumala is more bulbous,