Other varieties exist, in other places.
Taro tubers (Aracea) in Shuar "sanku"
Taro are plants whose roots end up having up to a meter size. The leaves are wide and hearth shaped; the underground tuber is an eatable. Blended with yucca, it is good to make chicha.
Ikianchin' sanku: red or rosy tuber.
Sanku mama: white tuber and round leaf.
Penke sanku: white tuber with points on it.
Yamakat sanku: tuber and leaves split.
Yawa sanku: eatable red tuber and leaves of intense green color.
Peanut (Leguminous) in Shuar "nuse"
Paa nuse: white and big peanut.
Tsuntsumanch nuse: red and spotted peanut.
Achuar nuse: peanut of the Achuar.
Apach' nuse: red peanut introduced by the colonists.
Ipiak nuse: red peanut introduced by the colonists.
Beans (Leguminous) in Shuar "miik"
Etse miik: climber bean with points.
Iirpij miik: stick bean, with long sheaths.
Numpenkam miik: cringing bean.
Puruskan niik: climber bean with points.
Suap miik: wild, big, eatable bean.
Nunkaim miik: small bean (stopped poroto).
Payashum miik: another poroto type.
Yakim miik: climber, loads enough.
Plantains and Bananas (Musacea) in Shuar "paantan or chumpiar"
Apí paantam: thick and big plantain.
Atash paantam: plantain type.
Apairank mejech: guineo of the north.
Antuam paantam: small wild plantain.
Inkfaram paantam: long plantain.
Ipi paantam: similar to plantain but uncomestible.
Tumtum mejech: purple guineo
Kantuash paantam: big plantain.
Jempetkat mejech: similar guineo to the purple one but with green shell.
Kuri mejech: small gold guineo.
Paer mejech: small purple guineo.
Santanfa mejech: big size guineo.
Makum mejech: guineo tongo.
Tsuak mejech: guineo of high and black shaft; their fruit is seemed that of the tongo, it serves as remedy against the diarrhea.
Tamputarnpu: big banana, doesn't load a lot.
Tsapik paantam: plantain wild midget.
Ukash mejech: wild short gold guineo.
Atash paantam: plantain type.
Yam (Dioscoreacea) in Shuar "kenke"
Kenke: name generic of yam. It is a climbing plant that is sustained with the stick. It can be purple or white. The shaft is herbaceous and light. The flower is given in clusters to the end of the shaft. The root is like the yucca. The fruits that are eatable, grow in six months. It is eaten roasted and cooked with salt, pepper, and meat.
They are several species like:
Ajach' kenke: wild yam.
Kal kenke: yam of purple color.
Mama kenke: yam long has yucca form.
Naek kenke: yam long, spreading on the ground.
Paama kenke: thick and round.
Súsu kenke: small, with beards.
Tsani kenke: yam of black color.
Tsenkup kenke: yam white; resembling to the pelma; it grows in the abandoned gardens.
Uchi kenke: yam white, round and flat fruit.
Urancharm kenke: white yam with hairy fruit.
Antumu kenke: yam purple and big.
Temp kenke: tropical yam; it is of very big size, it grows tangled.
Other eatable fruits and plants in the vegetable garden are:
Ikianan: eatable white and sweet fruit.
Keach: eatable fruit (chirimoya)
Namuk': red pumpkin.
Yuwi: eatable vegetable.
Uchich sepui: small onion.
Pinia: bush that resembles a grass; the fruit is a ball, in form of a small banana.
Kushikiam: plants of the family of cocoa, eatable.
Yuwinchi: small eatable melon.
Sunka yuwi: melon with red skin.
Yumunk: lemon.
Puju shaa: white corn.
Masha shaa: big corn.
Yunki shaa: similar corn for pupcorn.
Chiu or chui: pineapple with juicy, sweet fruit.
Chiki: plants with very small eatable underground tubers; the tuber is cooked.
Kukuch': its fruits are eatable, resemblance to the naranjilla.
Naman: climbing with yellow flowers.
SACRED SONG (ANENT) OF THE AGRICULTURE
To sow the yucca the appropriate anent is sung so that the earth becomes soft and you can remove roots with more easiness:
Planting the wai
lighter, lighter,
opening, opening, I am
cultivating the earth uplifting the soil.
Uplifted I leave it (bis).
Wai, small wai, cleaning, digging the earth,
I will leave it uplifted.
Chiki is what I will sow.
Light, lighter is the earth,
without difficulty I am saying
from the dawn calling to sow,
Chiki is what I will sow,
without difficulty I am making,
from the morning until the evening,
I do it while singing.
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