Greetings from Sweden...very far away from the Mediterranean! Now I must add my two cents worth here....Testudinaria elephantipes....a pretty disappointing caudex?!? Yes, it does belong in the 'yam' family...Dioscoreaceae....but what do you find disappointing about it? As a caud lover, I must leap to its defence! ;-)))) What's wrong with a tuberculed warty caudex? Wonders Ingrid in Sweden wose Dioscorea elephantipes is small but nice! But there are other beauties in the 'Family'!