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Momordica charantia (bitter melon, Mandarin Chinese: kǔ guā 苦瓜) is native to Africa but has been used in Chinese folk medicine for centuries as a 'bitter, cold' herb, and has recently been brought into mainstream Chinese medicine as well as natural medical traditions around the world. Recent research has shown that the immature fruit ...
Momordica charantia, (commonly called bitter melon, cerassee, goya, bitter apple, bitter gourd, bitter squash, balsam-pear, karavila and many more names listed below) [1] is a tropical and subtropical vine of the family Cucurbitaceae,widely grown in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean for its edible fruit.
The fruit is a prolate spheroid, 3.5–7.5 cm long and 2.5–5 cm wide, bright orange and covered with soft spines. When fully ripe it splits from the bottom into three valves, exposing a cluster of black seeds, individually covered by a bright red, sticky, sweet pulp.
Momordica balsamina and the related Momordica charantia share some common names: African cucumber, balsam apple, and balsam pear. Other names for M. balsamina are balsamina or southern balsam pear. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is known in Africa under a broad range of names, e.g. in Mozambique as cacana and in South Africa as nkaka .In Hausa language it is ...
Download QR code; In other projects ... English: Momordica cochinchinensis (gac fruit) seeds. Date: 29 May 2017, 09:47:35 ... Usage on de.wikipedia.org Momordica ...
Momordica dioica, also known as bristly balsam pear Index of plants with the same common name This page is an index of articles on plant species (or higher taxonomic groups) with the same common name ( vernacular name).
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Momordica" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
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