Wild Yam Extract

Wild Yam Extract
Dioscorea is an herbaceous twining perennial common in the eastern and central United States. Twining in hedges, and over bushes and fences, the thin, woolly, reddish-brown stem grows up to 6m long. The slender, tuberous rootstock is crooked and laterally branched. Broadly ovate and cordate, the leaves are from 5-15cm long and 3-12cm wide, glabrous on top, and finely hairy underneath. They are usually alternate, but the lower leaves sometimes grow in twos and fours. The small, greenish-yellow flowers bloom during June and July, the male flowers in drooping panicles, the female in drooping, spicate racemes. The fruit is a three-winged capsule containing winged seeds.