Some root vegetables are: Burdock
Carrots
Cassava (Yuca with one c, Yucca is not edible)
Celeriac
Onions
Garlic
Jerusalem artichoke (different from traditional artichokes)
Parsnips
Potatoes
Radish and Daikon
Shallots
Sweet Potatoes
Taro
Turnips and Rutabegas
Yams (not to be confused with sweet potatoes) etc.
Jack-in-the-pulpit roots are edible, but only after drying and cooking it.
The Chinese use the roots in herbal medicine.
Aztecs used to eat the tubers. Now we just enjoy the flowers.
examples of plants with modified roots.....
A perennial plant with twisting, climbing vines with fleshy edible roots.
Buttress roots are not edible.
Jack-in-the-pulpit roots are edible, but only after drying and cooking it.
The reed is not edible, but some species of reed have edible tuberous roots.
You can eat Indian cucumber roots
The Chinese use the roots in herbal medicine.
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yes they are!
Spider plants are in the lily family, related to day lilies, which have edible tuberous roots. So, technically spider plant roots should be edible by the definition of being non-toxic. However, I would not recommend eating your decorative house plants.
There are several edible roots of tropical vines, including taro, yam and jicama.
No Ipomoea plants do not have edible roots. They are grown for their foliage only.
All Sweet Potatoes that are of the Latin name Ipomoea Batatas, have both edible roots,(or tubers)and edible young tender green leaves. You can also eat the dried roots and dried vines. This site tells the story well......http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_potato Some sites list the foliage as toxic. I ate them. I was dilicious and I was ok.
the function of the roots are to absorb water and the root can be edible