a bitter wild fruit

[Kiran Srivastava]

This extremely bitter fruit found in Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Mumbai. Please identify?

 

Cheers,

Kiran Srivastava

Mumbai

kir...@vsnl.net

 

[Neil Soares]

Hi Kiran,
It is Cucumis trigonis [Wild Cucumber] locally
called Davderi.
Regards,
Neil.

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[J.M. Garg]

Thanks, Dr. Neil for the Id.

 

Cucumis is a genus of twining, tendril-bearing plants in the Cucurbitaceae family which includes the cucumber, true melons, the horned melon, and Cucumis anguria, the West Indian gherkin.

See the Wikipedia link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucumis

 

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