Fruits & Vegetables week: Sechium edule from California

[Gurcharan Singh]

Sechium edule (Jacq.) Sw., Fl. Ind. occid. 2:1150. 1800

Often grown and sold in Sikkim, Darjeeling and other Indian hill stations, now also available in stores elsewhere

This one was photographed from California in September, 2009, often sold in stores in California under the name Chayote squash

Common names: chayote, chayote squash, vegetable pear, 

Local names: chow chow, squash, iskus (Nepal).

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Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
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[Jency Samuel]

I remember reading about a farmer in the US or Canada who encased these tender ones in some sort of a plastic mould - shaped like the faces of leaders - so that when they ripened they took the shape of the mould. The one that I remember distinctly is that of Bush senior. May be it was during the Iraq war. Jency --- On Sun, 2/1/11, Gurcharan Singh <sing...@gmail.com> wrote:

[tanay bose]

Jency Ji this is really funny

tanay

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Tanay Bose

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[Gurcharan Singh]

Dear Samuel

Really interesting information

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Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297  Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/