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Coccinia heterophylla

Botanic Family
Cucurbitaceae
Author
(Hooker f.) Holstein

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Geographical Habitats

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Perennial tendril vine to 6m with glabrous stems. 5-7 lobed glabrous leaves to 125mm x 140mm with dentate margins with bracts to 5mm & bifid tendrils. Male flowers in short racemes, flowers with bracts to 3.5mm, calyx lobes to 7mm, dirty yellow to reddish-orange corolla to 16m, corolla lobes to 7m. Solitary female flowers or in racemes to 150mm, racemes, bracts, calyx & corolla as in male flowers. Orange fruit with longitudinal green bands to 60mm x 25mm

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