achira (Canna edulis), ahipa (Pachyrhizus ahipa), arracacha (Arracacia xanthorrhiza), Blog, maca (Lepidium meyenii), mauka (Mirabilis expansa) Know Your Andean Root Vegetables: Part 2 Posted on April 6, 2015April 5, 2018 by bill Here is the second of our Andean root vegetable fliers. This one has the lesser known Andean crops: Achira, Ahipa, Arracacha, Maca, and Mauka. There is a link to the full two-page version below. Click here for the two page PDF. Oca: What does it taste like? Oca: Crunching the numbers on 2 years of oca from seed