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hanging ube plant Ube Purple Yam Plant - True Dioscorea AlataScientific Name: Dioscorea alata, aka: Elephantodon eburnea, Greater yam, Guyana Arrowroot. Get ready to grow your very own vibrant Ube! These are True Purple Yam plants, perfect for cultivating at home for use in your favorite recipes. Just to be clear, these are NOT purple sweet potatoes they're a unique botanical treasure! You'll love their distinctive, twisted looking vines and the impressive, nutritious yams they produce. What's even more
Scientific Name: Dioscorea alata, aka: Elephantodon eburnea, Greater yam, Guyana Arrowroot.
Get ready to grow your very own vibrant Ube! These are True Purple Yam plants, perfect for cultivating at home for use in your favorite recipes.
Just to be clear, these are NOT purple sweet potatoes – they're a unique botanical treasure! You'll love their distinctive, twisted-looking vines and the impressive, nutritious yams they produce. What's even more fascinating is that these yams can stay quietly growing underground for several years, continuing to increase in size before harvest – truly a hard-to-find, incredibly popular plant that's ready to add a splash of color to your garden!
Features
- Remarkably Resilient: This is a wonderfully prolific plant! Its rhizomes can be easily divided, helping you produce even more plants to enjoy. It's surprisingly tough, able to withstand temperatures as low as 22ºF while dormant.
- Self-Pollinating: No need for a partner here! This tree is wonderfully self-fertile.
- Stunning Aesthetics: Prepare for a tropical paradise in your own backyard! Its lush, abundant, gorgeous deep green foliage creates an exotic vibe and makes a truly stunning garden centerpiece.
- Drought-Tolerant Champion: This plant is a trooper, happily enduring hot, humid temperatures and even dry spells. Just remember, it's not a fan of too much water!
Perfect Growing Zones Ube absolutely thrives in USDA Hardiness Zones 7b-11. If your home falls within these zones, congratulations—this fantastic plant is truly a perfect fit for you! Grows year-round indoors.
Culinary Uses Oh, where to begin with Ube, the famous purple yam! A true staple in Filipino cuisine, Ube is making a delicious splash in American food trends, too. It offers a wonderfully unique, sweet, nutty flavor and that absolutely captivating, vibrant purple hue. You'll find Ube bringing its magic to all sorts of dishes, from delightful desserts to savory sensations!
Dessert Delights:
- Ube Ice Cream: A creamy, cool, and incredibly popular treat.
- Ube Cakes: Known for their moist texture and beautiful purple color, often paired with macapuno (a special type of coconut).
- Ube Mochi: Chewy, delightfully purple, and utterly delicious.
- Ube Milk Tea/Ube Flurry: A trendy and tasty drink featuring that unmistakable ube flavoring.
- Ube Pancakes/Waffles: Add vibrant color and unique flavor to your breakfast favorites.
- Ube Custard Cake/Puffs: Infuses a wonderful flavor into these sweet, custardy creations.
- Ube Halaya: A delightful jam or spread, perfect for toast or as a dessert on its own.
- Ube in Halo-Halo: Adds a unique taste and eye-catching color to this beloved layered dessert.
Savory Surprises:
- Ube in Bread/Pancakes: Incorporate ube into your savory bread or pancake dough for a twist.
- Ube in Soups/Pasta: Experiment by adding ube as a flavorful component to savory dishes like soups or pasta.
- Ube in Croquettes: A fun way to include ube in a croquette or other savory recipe.
- Did you know tubers may also be processed into flour or starch? Plus, purple yams can be boiled, mashed, fried, or baked – just like your favorite potatoes or even turned into delicious fries! They're fantastic in stews, stir-fries, and soups. And, in the Philippines, they are often transformed into flour, frequently used in creating exquisite desserts. Ube powder is also a wonderful way to create that vibrant purple color in your Instagram-worthy foods, from candies and rice to cakes, desserts, and jams!
Nutritional & Botanical Highlights Ube, or purple yam, is celebrated for its wonderful nutritional profile and the unique compounds that contribute to its vivid purple color.
- Rich in Key Nutrients: Purple yams are a good source of vitamin C.
- Contains Anthocyanins: Like other blue-pigmented berries and purple vegetables, ube contains anthocyanins, which are natural plant compounds with antioxidant properties responsible for its beautiful color.
- Complex Carbohydrates: Purple yams are full of complex carbohydrates and resistant starch (a type of starch that resists digestion in the small intestine).
Growth Habits & Best Practices
- Impressive Height: This lush tropical beauty can climb up to an amazing 100 feet when given a trellis!
- Light Preference: Loves the sun but is quite adaptable and can tolerate partial shade.
- Soil: Keeps this plant happy with rich, well-draining soil.
- Dormancy: In winter, typically from late November or early December, plants in zones 1-7 may enter a dormant phase until around March or April. The foliage might wither, dry, and disappear, but don't worry—the roots stay cozy underground unless they experience a prolonged, deep freeze. In zones 7-11, it grows as a perennial!
- Propagation: Ube propagates from vine cuttings easily by growing roots in water or directly planting in soil using a root stimulator.
- Where to Plant: A sunny or dappled light location in your backyard is perfect, especially with a sturdy trellis or a friendly tree for the vines to climb on! But don't worry, it's adaptable enough to thrive in a sunny room inside your house, too!
Planting Guide Once Roots are Established
- Dig a hole as wide as your pot or plant rhizome, aiming for approximately 2-4 inches deep.
- Carefully remove your plant or rhizome and place it in the hole.
- Fill the hole with soil, and give it a good, generous watering to help it settle in.
- If you're in zones lower than 7, remember to bring your potted plant inside for winter protection.
- Container Planting: For containers, plant 2-3 inches deep in a good quality, well-draining potting mix.
Care Routine
- Give it regular watering, but make sure to let the soil dry out nicely between waterings.
- Keep it happy by fertilizing with a balanced fertilizer every year.
- Fun Facts: Did you know there's a Ube Festival? It's a popular annual celebration of all things UBE! Humans have known and appreciated Ube since ancient times, truly a plant with a long and storied past.
Ideal For
- Home gardeners in warm regions who love unique and visually stunning plants.
- Gardeners eager to add eye-catching and productive plants to their landscape.
- Anyone interested in self-sufficiency and growing their own sustainable, nutrient-dense food sources that can continue to grow underground for years!
🚫 Not Ideal For
- Those residing in frigid regions below USDA Zone 5, unless you can bring a potted plant indoors for winter protection.
- Gardeners who don't have enough sun or a suitable trellis for climbing vines.
Disclaimer: This information is provided for general knowledge about the Ube plant (Dioscorea alata) and its characteristics. This product is a live plant for cultivation purposes. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any illness or disease. Consult with a qualified professional before using any plant for medicinal purposes.
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★★★★★ 3
Mixed feelings
Format: Paperback
I had the opportunity to finish this book in one day of reading, while my 3 kids spent the day with grandparents. It is a very easy read, very accessible. Karis' style is very informal and she employs a lot of humor (and hyperbole), and that may be refreshing for some, though I found it distracting. I hope my criticisms will not be taken too harshly, and am certainly glad that others have found it inspiring or enlightening! We desperately need more grace based parenting in our homes and churches as we strive to undo the influence and damage of the punitive methods that have marred the face of Christian culture for so long! We need more books like this, that can reach every believing parent where they are, and inspire them to parent with the same grace and wisdom our Heavenly Father employs!
All that said, this was my experience reading the book: I felt the numerous anecdotes take up valuable space and time that would be better spent digging into passages of the Word and working through practical application. I was disappointed to not find a whole lot of either. If you are well-read on child development and "alternative" methods of discipline and childrearing (from those considered to be in the "anti-spanking camp"), you will find nothing new here. I didn't care for the rebranding of the classic four temperments and promoting supplemental Family Matters products... You can easily find many free tools and information reguarding personality psychology on the internet, and you will have a much deeper understanding. But personality is a shifty thing in youth anyway, and if you are not inclined to pursue that kind of study, I promise that simply resolving to spend more unstructured time with your children, to slow down and observe them at work or play, to listen with full attention, considering their perspective before answering or judging, you will learn more than what could ever be summerized in a personality type. Pegging a child in any brand of personality typing has it's own drawbacks. It can promote unfair assumptions, lead to misunderstandings, and cause confusion when trying to understand more subtle or complex behaviors and attitudes.
I appreciate her reasoning for not digging into the spanking issue in the main content of the book, setting that aside in the appendix in the back. She does a good job highlighting what gracious spanking looks like if you choose to do so. I am of a similar opinion that it is not a crucial point of doctrine and isn't always an issue of abuse or neglect either. It truly is a parent's prerogative and responisibility to consider the Word and the research and their own consience on the matter. If you do spank, follow her guidelines and you will not go wrong! I did find her characterizations of non-spankers, like myself, a bit condescending ("lazy", "fearful"), but to be fair she is addressing the extreme. If only you knew how much effort and time in research and reflection many of us sacrifice to employ better methods! It is very proactive approach and it is difficult work! I think she could have done a better job to include an objective summery of arguments in both camps for better understanding, but I really appreciate her exhorting those in both camps to avoid contention and judgement. It should never be an issue that causes us to break fellowship with a brother or sister!
There is a good chapter on what she calls the "3 P's", a helpful framework for discerning the whole truth of God's word. But as far as parenting goes, personally, I didn't find anything new or particularly helpful here. I will be gifting this to a good friend/newer mom who will likely get more out of it than I did. Maybe you will too!
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Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2018
★★★★★ 5
Excellent, succinct, intro to Marxism...
Format: Paperback
Richard Wolff’s Understanding Marxism is an excellent and highly accessible populist work that introduces Marx’s critique of the inherent contradictions and inevitable problems that plague – and will continue to plague – capitalism. So, he sets out to show how the contemporary experience and understanding of the relationship between employer-employee emerge from because it is the modern manifestation of the historical distinction, which is hierarchical, oppressive and ultimately “exploitative, between master-slave and Lord-serf - Zizek, in his small text The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto, offers a unique response to this line of critique and reasoning.
Above I mention the accessibility of the writing – in fact, there is a crystalline clarity to it - and if you have watched Wolff’s show or listened to his interviews, it’s as if Wolff is speaking in his usual manner that avoids academic jargon and communicates his ideas directly. This is an extremely helpful and useful guide to understanding Marx, and I am hoping many young intelligent politically-minded university students will read it – e.g., those who might be unfamiliar with Marx - because it offers a sensible corrective to the ill-informed Marxist critics on the so-called “intellectual dark web” (IDW) who repeatedly, without properly understanding Marx, scapegoat him and employ him as a bogeyman to enhance the arousal of fear and alarm with their rhetoric.
Ultimately, and here I agree with Wolff, Marx might be said – bound intimately with Marx’s notion of “species being” (a term Wolff avoids) – to show why “ending exploitation [is] necessary to actualize social commitments to liberty, equality, brotherhood, and democracy” (36-37). So, instead of a utopian (end-of-history) communist or socialist model for society, Wolff, through his reading of Marx, offers what might be termed a philosophical or even commonsensical (and achievable!) model of what a more socially aware and humanly grounded workplace might look like – one that is Marxist in nature and instantiates people coming together in more “democratic, egalitarian ways.” (71).
Wolff also directs readers to primary source material for further study - so, all the quotations included are traced to Marx's original writings, which readers are encouraged to seek out.
To conclude, readers must be aware that this pamphlet – indeed, this is what Wolff calls it – does not attempt to serve as a broad or sprawling introduction to Marx and his writings. Thus, when ordering it, be aware that it is not akin to academic introductions and critiques of Marx such as Peter Singer’s Marx: a Very Short Introduction (OUP) or Allen Wood’s Karl Marx (Routledge).
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Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2019
★★★★★ 5
Excellent Essay
Format: Paperback
Wolff is a one of the best people I know of to deliver a quick handbook to Marx. He delivers a master class on this complicated subject and I have long respected his views on economics and politics.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Awesome Introduction. A quick, easy read.
Format: Paperback
Very good overview and a quick little read! I was able to read this in a day, despite having ADHD. That, in my opinion, is a testament to the engaging, straight-forward writing style. I now feel well-versed enough in thd basics to read more in-depth texts. Highly recommended.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2025
★★★★★ 4
Brief and informative
I recommend this book to anyone that is curious about what exactly Marxism or socialism is but does not care to read volumes of material from Karl Marx himself. It's a quick yet poignant look at the major points and positions of the philosopher Karl Marx and gives you reason to go further study of you desire. This book will leave the average person with enough knowledge to hold an intelligent conversation about what Marxism is. Can be read on a commute to and from work or a 2hr plane ride.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2020
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