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Citrullus colocynthis- Pekumatti, Kattuvellari ,Colocynth, Citron, Bitter apple, Vine of Sodom-plant

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Citrullus colocynthis- Pekumatti, Kattuvellari ,Colocynth, Citron, Bitter apple, Vine of Sodom-plant

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Description

Perennial trailing herbs with somewhat woody tuberous root; stems shortly hairy when young becoming scabrid. Tendrils simple, rarely bifid, slender, glabrous. Leas alternate, elongate-ovate in outline, 10-60 (-110) mm long, 8-55 (-66) mm broad, distinctly scabrid-hairy beneath, smooth except on the nerves above, palmately deeply 3-5-lobed, ultimate lobes pinnately lobulate with central lobe longest, long-ovate in outline; petiole rather densely rough-hairy; probracts lanceolate-elliptic, 4-5 mm long and c. l. 5 mm broad, caducous. Male flowers on long pedicels; calyx campanulate, c. 9 (4-8) mm long, lobes c. 5 mm broad; corolla pale yellow, ovate-acute, c. 8 mm long and c. 5 mm broad. Female flowers on longer pedicels than male, receptacle-tube short, lobes lanceolate, c. 5 mm long; ovary hairy, subglobose or obovate. Fruits c. 5 cm in diameter, globose, smooth, longitudinally green striped, 5-7 cm in diameter, eipcarp thin, filled with a dry spongy very bitter pulp; seeds numerous, ovate-oblong, yellowish brown, not margined, c. 6 mm long and c. 3 mm broad

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Weight 2 kg
Dimensions 36 × 15 × 15 cm
Common Name

Citrullus colocynthis- Pekumatti, Kattuvellari ,Colocynth, Citron, Bitter apple, Vine of Sodom-plant

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http://keralaplants.in/keralaplantsdetails.aspx?id=Citrullus_colocynthis

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