Fruits & Vegetables week: Momordica dioica from Delhi

[Gurcharan Singh]

Momordica dioica Roxb. ex Willd. Sp. pl. 4(1):605. 1805

Often sold in markets in Delhi, fruit vegetable

Common English name: Spine gourd

Hindi: Kaksa, meetha karela

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Dr. Gurcharan Singh
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[Dinesh Valke]

fruits & vegetables :: NATIVE, WILD :: Cucurbitaceae » Momordica dioica


Cucurbitaceae (pumpkin, or gourd family) » Momordica dioica


mo-MOR-di-ka -- from the word to bite, reference to the seeds which look bitten
dy-oh-EE-kuh -- male and female flowers on separate plants


commonly known as: bristly balsam-pear, prickly carolaho, spine gourd, teasle gourd • Assamese: avandhya, bhat-kerela • Bengali: bhat korola, ghee korola, kankrol • Gujarati: katwal • Hindi: बन करेला ban karela • Kannada: karchi-balli, madahagala gadde • Konkani: फागिल phagil • Malayalam: ben-pavel, erimapasel • Marathi: करटोली kartoli • Rajasthani: bara -karela, kankera, kankoda • Sanskrit: कर्कोटकी karkotaki, कर्कोटी karkoti • Tamil: மெழுகுபாகல் meluku-pakal, பழுபாகல் palu-pakal • Telugu: అడవికాకర adavikakara, ఆకాకర akakara


Native to: south-east Asia


Edible use (WILD):

... ripe fruit (as FRUIT) eaten ... unripe fruit (as vegetable) ...Purdue University
... the fruits are fried and sometimes eaten with meat or fish ... Wikipedia

[Balkar Arya]

I think these are also same

from Panipat, wild, growing near railway line

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Dr Balkar Singh
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Arya P G College, Panipat
Haryana-132103
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[Gurcharan Singh]

Yes Balkar ji

You have got the perfect series. Let us now think what the other plant is which at least three members thought M. dioica but I considered Cucumis sativus. I will activate that thread again.

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[Balkar Arya]

Thanks Sir

[J.M. Garg]

Finally concluded as M. subangulata subsp. renigera as per discussions in another thread.

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[Gurcharan Singh]

Yes M. subangulata subsp. renigera

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