cassava, manioc, singkong

Description:

These are young cassava plants. One of the world's major starch crops, a woody shrub of the Euphorbiaceae (spurge family) native to South America. It is extensively cultivated as an annual crop in tropical and subtropical regions for its edible starchy, tuberous root. In many countries, e.g. Indonesia and West Africa, the leaves are also used as a vegetable.

Habitat:

Observed growing from a previous planting on a fallow garden in the equatorial tropics of northern New Guinea.