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Benincasa hispida
Benincasa hispida
- Botanic Family
- Cucurbitaceae
- Author
- (Thunberg) Cogniaux
- Cultivated
- C. fruit, ornamental curiosity. Has been grown as Cassabanana = Sicana odorifera.
Common Names
- Wax Gourd
- White Gourd
- Ash Gourd
- Chinese Water Melon
- Tunka
- Zit-kwa
- Chinese Preserving Melon
- White Pumpkin
- Winter Melon
- Petha
- Don Kwa
- Chinese Squash
- Mo Kwa
- Dong Kua
- Dong Gua (Pinyin)
- Tong Kwa
- Madhuwa (Bhojpuri)
- Kubhindo (Chepang)
- Kumdha (Danuwar)
- Ash Pumpkin
- Unsye (Gurung)
- Tangjong Tangat (Lepcha)
- Phutra (Limbu)
- Bomosyo (Magar)
- Kumhara (Mooshar)
- Kubhindo (Nepali
- Tamang)
- Bhuyu Phasi (Newari)
- Chhomlokasi (Rai)
- Kupindo (Sunwar)
- Bhunru (Tharu)
- Kush-man-da-k (Tibetan)
- Chal-kumra (India)
- Ash Pumpkin
- Kyauk-pha-yon (Myanmar)
- Lun-tha (Myanmar)
- Pora-mat (Myanmar)
- Baligo (Java)
- Daligo (Java)
- Muop (Vietnam)
- Quã bi das (Vietnam)
- Kundor (Singapore)
- Sada Kumra
- Chuna Kumra
- Jali Kumra
- Gimikumra
- Kumra
- Bhuikumra
- Wood Gourd
- Tallow Gourd
- Kyaukpayon (Burmese)
- Tung Kua (Chinese)
- Tougan (Japanese)
- Terak Bileng or Terak Sayak or Lepo Ga (Malaysia)
- Abobora de Agua (Portuguese)
- Bi Dao (Cambodia
- Laos
- Vietnam)
- Suphala (Sanskrit)
- Pushini (Tamil)
Geographical Habitats
- Queensland - Australia
- Borneo
- Java
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- Maluku
- Sulawesi - Indonesia
- New Caledonia
- Bismarck Archipelago
- New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
- Solomon Islands
Natural Habitats
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Annual hairy herbaceous simple, bifid or trifid tendril climber or creeper with angular brown hairy stems. 5-9 lobed scabrous denticulate leaves slightly strigose to 225mm x 145mm. Axillary monoecious male flowers solitary yellow flowers to 100mm with 5 sepals to 8mm & 5 yellow petals, female flowers solitary. 600mm x 360mm white fleshy villous pubescent mealy fruit, musky scent.
Large fruits need strong supports, may be toxic
Cultivated for fruits eaten fresh & pickled & seed eaten
Further References
- Sturtevant 1919
- Bailey 1976
- Huxley 1992
- Rubatzky 1997
- Manandhar 2002
- Mobot : FOC
- JDH
- The Plant List 2
- USNH
- Botanicus
- F Indochine
- FOTA
- GBS
- Exotica
- Tanziman Ara
- Wiart 2