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Trichosanthes wallichiana

Botanic Family

Cucurbitaceae

Author

(Seringe) Wight

Common Names

• Ban Pharsi (Nepali)
• Indrayani (Nepali)
• Bo ye gua lou (Pinyin)
• Crow's Pumpkin
• Akar Timun Gagak (Singapore)
• Momiji-karasu-uri (Japan)

Geographical Habitats

• Bhutan
• Xizang
• S. Yunnan - China
• India
• Honshu
• Kyushu
• Shikoku - Japan
• Johore - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Singapore
• Thailand

Natural Habitats

• Moist shade
• forests
• montane areas
• woodland
• hedges
• lowland forest margins
• swamp forest

Flowering Times

• Jul-Sep (China)
• Aug (Japan)

Fruiting Times

• Oct-Nov (China)

Robust herbaceous glabrous dioecious trifid to quinquefid tendril vine or creeper with grooved glabrous stems, 5 to 9-lobed scabrous toothed leaves 200mm x 200mm hairy above, glabrescent beneath. 15mm white flowers, male racemes to 350mm long with bracts to 30mm long, calyx tube 50mm or more, lobes 15mm x 6mm, glabrescent petals 40mm long, female flowers solitary, bright red oval fruits to 100mm long x 70mm with orange streaks

Further References

• Manandhar 2002
• FOC
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• FS
• Usnh
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• GBS
• FOJ