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This wild melon is relatively small in size compared to cultivated bitter melon. 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 ...
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 Chinese Chemical Society [a] (CCS; simplified Chinese: 中国化学会; traditional Chinese: 中國化學會) lays out a set of rules based on those given by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) for the purpose of systematic organic nomenclature in Chinese. The chemical names derived from these rules are meant to ...
Benincasa hispida, the wax gourd, [4] [5] also called ash gourd, [6] white gourd, winter gourd, winter melon, tallow gourd, ash pumpkin, [6] Chinese preserving melon, [6] is a vine grown for its very large fruit, eaten as a vegetable when mature. It is native to South and Southeast Asia.
This was rendered in Chinese as luóhàn guǒ (羅漢果, literally ' arhat fruit ') which later became the Chinese and Western commercial designation for this type of sweet fruit. [ 5 ] It may also be called la han qua (from Vietnamese la hán quả , which also means ' arhat fruit ' ), or longevity fruit (also used for other fruits).
The oriental melon (Cucumis melo Makuwa Group) is a group of Cucumis melo cultivars that are produced in East Asia. [1] [2] Phylogenetic studies tracing the genetic lineage of the plant suggest that it may have originated in eastern India, having then spread to China over the Silk Road, from which it was introduced to Korea and Japan.
The Bailan melon (Chinese: 白蘭瓜) is a locally famous melon grown near Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu province in the People's Republic of China. [1] It is a variety of honeydew melon , globose to subglobose and typically has white skin with sweet, white or pale green, flesh. [ 2 ]
Chinese date táo tàu: Cam sành: green orange Sugar-apple bình bát or mãng cầu: Custard apple Dracontomelon sấu: Durian sầu riêng: Gac gấc: Xôi gấc – made with sweet glutinous rice and the aril and seeds of the gấc fruit Baby Jackfruit, Spiny Bitter Gourd, Sweet Gourd, or Cochinchin Gourd Chrysophyllum cainito vú sữa ...