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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 ...
Many species have large, yellow or white flowers. The stems are hairy and pentangular. Tendrils are present at 90° to the leaf petioles at nodes. Leaves are exstipulate, alternate, simple palmately lobed or palmately compound. The flowers are unisexual, with male and female flowers on different plants or on the same plant .
Citron melon leaves are palmate in the early stages of growth, and deeply lobed in later development. They have a rough texture and a visible white venation. [8] Solitary flowers with large, yellow petals of around 2–10 millimeters are randomly dispersed forming many seeded fruit with a variegated light green and dark green pattern. [9]
Citrullus consists of the following species and subspecies: [2] [3] Citrullus amarus Schrad. – citron melon; Citrullus colocynthis Schrad. – colocynth; Citrullus ecirrhosus Cogn. – tendril-less melon; Citrullus lanatus Matsum. & Nakai – desert watermelon Citrullus lanatus subsp. vulgaris var. cordophanus Fursa
Foxtail lilies (Eremurus robustus) might be some of the showiest bulbs you can plant. “In late spring, their shape and height make them look like exclamation points in the garden, a great ...
Fruit and flower of the Ecballium elaterium, also called the squirting cucumber or exploding cucumber containing cucurbitacin B. Constituents of the colocynth fruit and leaves (Citrullus colocynthis) include cucurbitacins.
The yellowing leaves will continue to absorb sunlight, feeding the bulbs for the following year's flowers. Now, you can dig up the bulbs, let them dry and store them to plant in the fall. This ...
Wild gourd is a common name for several noncultivated plants in the family Cucurbitaceae and may refer to: Wild growing forms of plants called gourds, particularly Citrullus colocynthis, thought to be the wild gourd mentioned in the Bible; Cucurbita foetidissima, native to the southwestern United States and Mexico