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Summary
Line art drawing of a cassava plant, (also spelled cassaba or cassada), which is a woody shrub with an edible starchy tuberous root. Cassava is ground into a flour. The root can be cut into chips and dried or made into flour.

Other names for this plant are: Brazil: mandioca, aipim, or macaxeira Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, The Dominican Republic, Haiti, Panama, Peru, Venezuela: yuca Paraguay: yuca Nigeria: akpu, ege or ugburu Ghana: bankye Swahili (Africa): mogo or mihogo Lingala (Africa): pondu India: kappa Sri Lanka: maniokka Indonesia: singkong Malaysia: ubi kayu Philippines: kamoteng kahoy or balanghoy China: mushu Thailand: man sampalang Vietnam: củ sắn or khoai mì Polynesia: manioke, tapioka or manioka