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Tenpoundbass says

It's not the roots, it's the aid spuds,

Thanks for the correction. Yeah, when I saw a guy digging them up to process he kept those which looked a lot like long narrow potatoes. Then after that I guess are the stringy roots.

They somehow rise to the top of the ground, I don't know if they grow on the vine, or from the roots somehow. But you find them on top of the ground, about the size of a potato. They are covered in little circle marks, sort of like a coral rock, but the spuds are dark brown. The curios thing about finding them on the ground, without any digging or foraging for them. They don't have any roots attached. Very strange fruit.

Oh well apparently they are two different species of vine. The similarities are striking though. They both have almost similar leaves, and produce pink blooms in clusters.
Although my description of both are correct between SC kutzu, and Florida Air potato.

The air potato does grow on the vine, then drops. I don't know how kutzu is harvested.

This is what I saw but these are huge vs. those the guy in the US was using: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u_tnKXiu_OY

If you scroll through those shorts people keep calling them roots but I think you're right, they are tubers which is different:

"A tuber is not a root; it is an underground stem that serves as a storage organ for nutrients. While both roots and tubers grow underground, roots are modified to store nutrients and grow downwards to absorb moisture and nutrients from the soil, whereas tubers develop from elongated stem tissue and can sprout new shoots and roots from their surface.

Examples of tubers include potatoes and sweet potatoes, which are not roots but modified stems"

Patrick's drive sounds like a trip to Wakanda or something.

When I was in TX last time Sotol tequila was all the rage. Overpriced but nice that you can make decent spirits from streetside shrubs

Thanks, never heard of Sotol before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sotol

Back in California now. The weather in Miami was better, but soon that weather situation will be reversed and it will be better here.

Patrick says

Back in California now. The weather in Miami was better, but soon that weather situation will be reversed and it will be better here.

I like CA weather but I love humidity for some weird reason. I feel like the sweat cleans your system out. Never liked dry/temperate heat. To get the sweat out you have to work out. In FL, AL, GA, MS, etc. you just stand outside.