Herbarium Blackwellianum emendatum et auctum, id est, Elisabethae Blackwell collectio stirpium.Norimbergae : Typis Io. Iosephi Fleischmanni, 1750-1773..biodiversitylibrary.org/page/291027
A vine of tropical Africa, which is cultivated for its edible fruit and for a number of folk medicine applications. Photo from Liparamba area of Tanzania.
This is the fruit of a vine native to eastern Africa. Beside folk medicine applications, most of the plant can be eaten if thoroughly cooked. Photo from Mikumi Park, Tanzania.
Family: CucurbitaceaeDistribution: Common on trees and hedges. An Indo malayan plant. Through out India, Photographed at a village near Eastren ghats.Local name: (Telugu)Paapara, Avaguda.Extensively branched climbers, tendrils branched. Leaves 8-12x 6-10cm, sub orbicular, deeply 5 lobed, lobes oblong, pellucid-punctate. Flowers 3-3.5cm across, white, Berries 5-6cm across globose, red, Leaf juice is applied to relieve joit pains, fruits are poisonous, root juice is used to relieve ear ache.Reference: Flra of Nellore district by B.Suryanarayana &A.S Rao, ENVIS, Flora of the presidecy of Madras. by J.S Gamble
Summary[edit] Description: English: cut-through of an unripe fruit of Momordica foetida Schumach. collected SSW of Morogoro City, Tanzania scale unit on the left is cm Deutsch: Längsschnitt durch eine unreife Frucht von Momordica foetida Schumach. gesammelt südsüdwestlich der Stadt Morogoro, Tansania Maßeinheit des Maßstabs links ist Zentimeter. Date: 14 July 2009. Source: Own work. Author: Pharaoh han.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Drawing of the twigs, foliage, and flowers of Dendrosicyos socotrana. The two lower left elements were copied from another source (Schweinfurth), but all the others were drawn by Harriet Anne Hooker Thiselton-Dyer from dried specimens. Date: 1888. Source: Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. 31, 1888. Author: Harriet Anne Hooker Thiselton-Dyer.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Cyclanthera carthagenensis (syn. Rytidostylis gracilis). Species of plant. Date: 16 August 2020. Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/90340251. Author: Eduardo Chacón-Madrigal. Camera location9° 59′ 31.48″ N, 84° 02′ 37.01″ WView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 9.992078; -84.043613. Image shared by iNaturalist user: eduardo_chacon Licensing[edit] : This file is licensed under the Creative CommonsAttribution 4.0 International license. :. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 truetrue. : This image was originally posted to iNaturalist by eduardo_chacon at https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/90340251. It was reviewed on 10 October 2020 by INaturalistReviewBot and found to be published under the terms of the Cc-by-4.0 license.