... correcting location of the attached views: in vicinity of my home place, Vaghbil, Thane.
Regards.
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Dinesh Valke <dinesh...@gmail.com> wrote:
Cucumis sativus
KOO-koo-mis -- from the Greek kykyon meaning, cucumber
sa-TEE-vus -- cultivated
commonly known as: cucumber • Arabic: خيار khiyar • Assamese: তিয়ঁহ tiyoh, তিঁহু tihu • Bengali: শশা sasa • Gujarati: કાકડી kakadi • Hindi: खीरा khira • Kannada: ಸೌತೆಕಾಯಿ sautekayi • Kashmiri: लौरू loru • Konkani: तौशे taushe • Lushai: fang-hma • Malayalam: വെള്ളരി vellari • Manipuri: থবী thabi • Marathi: काकडी kakadi, कांकडी kankadi, खिरा khira, तवशी tavashi • Nepalese: काँक्रो kankro, खिर् khir, खिरो khiro, खिर्-काँक्रि khir-kakri • Oriya: kakudi • Persian: خيار khiyar • Prakrit: खीरओ khira-o • Punjabi: ਖੀਰਾ khira • Sanskrit: अल्पणः alpanah, अल्पणकः alpanakah, चर्भटी charbati, ईर्वारुः irvaaruh, क्षीरकः kshirakah, त्रपुलम् trapulam, त्रपुसम् trapusam • Sindhi: وَنگيِ vangii • Tamil: வெள்ளரி vellari • Telugu: దోస dosa, కీర kira • Urdu: کهيرا khira
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Dinesh Valke <dinesh...@gmail.com> wrote:
Nice photo Dinesh ji, We use this in Dal and Arvi. I had a plant growing in our balcony. I will send a photo of it later.Regards,Mani.
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Yazdy Palia <yazdy...@gmail.com> wrote:
This is not cucumber. It is a wild fruit, we have a lot of discussion
recently. It is normally found around cowsheds as the animals enjoy
the fruits in the wild and the seeds sprout from the dried cattle
dropping. We have a lot of it in our area.
Regards
Yazdy.
> Cucumis sativus
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> KOO-koo-mis -- from the Greek kykyon meaning, cucumber
> sa-TEE-vus -- cultivated
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> commonly known as: cucumber • Arabic: خيار khiyar • Assamese: তিয়ঁহ tiyoh,
> > Regards.- Hide quoted text -
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This is not Zehneria Scabra. Please go through the link for Zeneria scabra.
http://www.google.co.in/search?q=Zehneria+scabra&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&client=firefox-a&rlz=1R1GGGL_en___IN364
Regards
Yazdy.
> hello everyone,
> I think this is wild cucumber ( Zehneria scabra)... this is very
> common... we can easily see this in the vicinity of our home...
>
> On Oct 9, 9:15 am, Yazdy Palia <yazdypa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is not cucumber. It is a wild fruit, we have a lot of discussion
>> recently. It is normally found around cowsheds as the animals enjoy
>> the fruits in the wild and the seeds sprout from the dried cattle
>> dropping. We have a lot of it in our area.
>> Regards
>> Yazdy.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Dinesh Valke <dinesh.va...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Cucumis sativus
>>
>> > KOO-koo-mis -- from the Greek kykyon meaning, cucumber
>> > sa-TEE-vus -- cultivated
>>
>> > commonly known as: cucumber • Arabic: خيار khiyar • Assamese: তিয়ঁহ tiyoh,
2 (1) | Leaf lobes acute. Ovary hispidulous. Fruit elongated or cylindric, rarely ovoid | 1 Cucumis sativus | |
+ | Leaf lobes not acute. Ovary hairy or densely white woolly. Fruit polymorphic, mostly rounded, ovoid or ellipsoid | (3) | |
3 (2) | Leaves usually deeply 5(-7)-lobed, scabrid. Corolla up to 10 mm long. Fruit oblong or obscurely trigonus, upto 7 cm long. Plants wild | 3 Cucumis melo subsp. agrestis var. agr |