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
2009.09.05 Upper Austria, Rohrbach (712 m AMSL).Flower, detail.This here is a "semi-cultivated" one: seeds were thrown on a compost heap and grew there next year, but they weren't seeded there on purpose.German name: Riesen-KrbisID: Fischer & al., Exkursionsflora