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5305 Ullocus tuberosus
1/1 Cultivated in mixed planting with,
Vicia faba. plants 4 month old.
Just starting to produce tubers. Tubers
long slightly curved - white with occasional
light pink dots. Flowers yellow.
one flower seen with 6 stamens.
5306 Tropaeolum
1,1,1 flowers orange. a few plant mixed
with ullocus. tubers cream yellow, long
8 3450m 1 km w of Tisaleo
5307 Ullocus tuberosus
4 1/1 plants being harvested, tubers white
much fewer white plants cultivated than red. 10 mo. old
sold in markets in Quayagil,
mashed & fried in tortilla
-plants lighter colored than red tuber ones
these with old inflorescences apparent.
on red plants of same age none present.
These also with more thin aerial sdolons