Occasional along the border areas of forests The fruit is an excellent vegetable. The roots and seeds are useful in syphilis and verminosis. A decoction of the stem and leaves are given for bilious disorders and stomachic.
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The fruit is an excellent vegetable. The roots and seeds are useful in syphilis and verminosis. A decoction of the stem and leaves are given for bilious disorders and stomachic.
family
Cucurbitaceae
synonym
Trichosanthes ambrozii Domin, Trichosanthes colubrina J. Jacq.
description
Slender vines, stem hairy. × Leaves 8-11 8-10 cm, palmately 3-5-lobed, broadly ovate or sub-orbicular, base truncate-cordate, margin distantly denticulate, apex acute, lower surface glandular-pubescent, chartaceous; petiole to 3.2 cm. Male flowers in axilliary racemes, ebracteate; pedicel to 2 cm long. Calyx-tube turbinate. Petals oblong-lanceolate, long- fimbriate, white; stamens 3. Female flowers solitary; ovary ribbed, pubescent. Fruits ovoid-fusiform, to 10 cm, beaked, white- striped when young, yellow when ripe.
native range
Southeast Asia, Australia and Western Pacific Islands L.