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  2. Momordica charantia - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Gourd - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5]: 21 Other plants with gourd in their name include the luffa gourd (likely domesticated in Asia), which includes several species from the genus Luffa, as well as the wax gourd, snake gourd, teasel gourd, hedgehog gourd, buffalo gourd/coyote gourd. The bitter melon/balsam apple/balsam pear is also sometimes referred to as a gourd.

  4. Momordica - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Citrullus colocynthis - Wikipedia

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    Citrullus Colocynthis Fruit in Behbahan Wild Citrullus Colocynthis. Citrullus colocynthis, with many common names including Abu Jahl's melon, (native name in Turkey) [2] colocynth, [3] bitter apple, [3] bitter cucumber, [3] egusi, [4] vine of Sodom, [3] or wild gourd, [3] is a poisonous desert viny plant native to the Mediterranean Basin and West Asia, especially the Levant, [5] [6] [7] Turkey ...

  6. Cucurbitaceae - Wikipedia

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    Lagenaria – calabash (bottle gourd) and other, ornamental gourds. Citrullus – watermelon (C. lanatus, C. colocynthis), plus several other species. Cucumis – cucumber (C. sativus); various melons and vines. Momordica – bitter melon. Luffa – commonly called 'luffa' or ‘luffa squash'; sometimes spelled loofah. Young fruits may be ...

  7. Calabash - Wikipedia

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    This gourd is often dried when ripe and used as a percussion instrument called an ipu heke (double gourd drum) or just Ipu in contemporary and ancient hula. The Māori people of New Zealand grew several cultivars of calabash for particular uses like ipu kai cultivars as food containers and tahā wai cultivars as water gourds.

  8. List of gourds and squashes - Wikipedia

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    This list of gourds and squashes provides an alphabetical list of (mostly edible) varieties of the plant genus Cucurbita, commonly called gourds, squashes, pumpkins and zucchinis/courgettes.

  9. Balsam pear - Wikipedia

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    Bitter melon (Momordica charantia), a vine grown for its bitter and edible fruit Momordica dioica , also known as bristly balsam pear Index of plants with the same common name

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