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Trichosanthes quinquangulata

Botanic Family

Cucurbitaceae

Author

A. Gray

Common Names

• Wu jiao gua lou (Pinyin)
• Mak tika (Vietnam)

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• Cambodia
• Taiwan
• S. Yunnan - China
• Andaman Islands - India
• Java
• Maluku
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Samoa
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Thickets
• roadsides
• secondary vegetation
• forest edges
• bamboo forest
• forest streamsides
• forest

Flowering Times

• Jun-Oct (China)
• Apr-Jun (Thailand)

Fruiting Times

• Sep-Oct (China)
• Mar (Thailand

Rarely monoecious glabrous 2-5-branched tendril climber with white flowers, male racemes to 300mm, flowers to 80mm long, 5-8 bracts 40mm x 20mm, calyx to 20mm across with lobes to 25mm, male petals to 20mm or more long, female solitary flowers to 60mm long, red glabrous fruit to 50mm x 70mm, 5-lobed leaves 200mm diameter

Further References

• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• Thai F
• F Indochine