Yams are potatoes.

It's just that people in various regions call it differently. Its scientific name is potato, potato is an annual herb, its main value is its tuber, potato is one of the world's four major food crops.

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The potato (scientific name: Solanum tuberosum?L.), belonging to the Solanaceae family, annual herbaceous plants, tubers are edible, is the world's fourth most important food crop, after wheat, rice and corn. Potatoes are also known as yams, yams, yams, taro, fragrant yams, yams, yams, yams, yams, yams, yams, yams, yams, yams, yams, yams, yams, yams, yams, yams, yams, yams, yams, yams, yams and yams.

In some southern provinces, it is also called "winter potato", because it is often planted in winter after harvesting rice in the fall. Potato in different countries, the name of the title is not the same, such as the United States called Irish potatoes, Russia called Dutch potatoes, France called the ground apple, Germany called the ground pear, Italy called the ground beans, Peru called Baba and so on.