Italy: sweet bean

France: sweet apples

Germany: Deli

United States: Irish potato

Russia: Dutch potato

China's Yunnan-Guizhou: potato

Shanxi, China: yam eggs

World common name: potato

English: patato

Shaanxi is called "potato"

And called an egg shaped thing.

Theoretically, it should be divided into many categories, but it is easy to be confused because of different names in different places.

1. Potato (generally referred to in the north) = = Potato (generally referred to in the south) = = yam egg (called in Shanxi) = = potato (called in Shanghai)

2. Sweet potato is also called sea taro, which is poisonous and can also be used as medicine. Different from taro.

3. And commonly known as taro, taro = = sweet potato (called in the south) = = sweet potato (called in the north) = = sweet potato (called in the northeast), sweet potato and sweet potato turned out to be the same thing (Khan-_! ), but the colors inside are different), their scientific name is sweet potato. Also known as squatting owl and taro. There are also called "red fan" and "red sweet potato" (as it seems in Hubei).

4. Amorphophallus konjac is edible, which is solidified into a block after adding alkaline water and stirring.

5. And yam is Chinese medicine. Also known as potato taro, potato medicine, Yanzhang, Yuyan and so on.

Therefore, yam and yam eggs are not the same thing, nor are taro and sweet potato and potato and konjac.