Description: Native to the southern Andes, but widely planted due to edible roots. Mainly known as Oca, but the term Hibia is more common here in Ecuador, where these flowers await the sun to open. In context at www.dixpix.ca/meso_america/Flora/malpigox/index.html. Date: 16 January 2012, 01:22. Source: Oxalis tuberosa. Author: Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada.
Native to the southern Andes, but widely planted due to edible roots. Mainly known as Oca, but the term Hibia is more common here in Ecuador, where these flowers await the sun to open. In context at www.dixpix.ca/meso_america/Flora/malpigox/index.html
