Flowering & Fruiting: August-September
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🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Life Cycle
Komor, P. & Devi, O.S. 2016. Edible bioresources & livelihoods. Assam State Biodiversity Board, Guwahati. pp. 241
Morphology
The plant is an annual climber, able to climb with the help of tendrils, but more commonly sprawling along the ground. Leaves are simple, broad and ovate. Flowers are unisexual and axillary. Male flowers in clusters of 2-3 individuals while female flowers are solitary and yellow in colour. The fruit is smooth either cylindrical or oval in shape about 12-15 cm long and 5-8 cm wide with a mealy, somewhat insipid or slightly sour flesh
Komor, P. & Devi, O.S. 2016. Edible bioresources & livelihoods. Assam State Biodiversity Board, Guwahati. pp. 241
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
Description
Global Distribution
India: Assam, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh; Africa
Local Distribution
Throughout Assam
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda
Unani
Traditional chinese medicine
System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda, Unani, Traditional chinese medicine
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=690
| Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=690 |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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The fruit is consumed raw or cooked. The seed is rich in oil with a nutty flavor
Nutritional Value
Energy 34 kcal; carbohydrate 8.6gm; protein 0.84gm; total fat 0.19 gm; dietary fibres 0.9 gm; vitamin C 36.7 mg; vitamin K 2.5 mg; sodium 1mg; potassium 269mg; calcium 9 mg; magnesium 12 mg; Zinc 0.18 mg & small amount of alpha-carotene, per100gm
Komor, P. & Devi, O.S. 2016. Edible bioresources & livelihoods. Assam State Biodiversity Board, Guwahati. pp. 241
Folklore
The fruit is used as a cooling light cleanser or moisturizer for the skin. Also used as a first aid treatment for burns and abrasions. The seed is antitussive, digestive, febrifuge and vermin-fuge. The root is also diuretic and emetic
Komor, P. & Devi, O.S. 2016. Edible bioresources & livelihoods. Assam State Biodiversity Board, Guwahati. pp. 241
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📚 Information Listing
References
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=690
Information Listing > References
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=690
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Cucurbitales |
| Family | Cucurbitaceae |
| Genus | Cucumis |
| Species | Cucumis melo L. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
📷 Related Observations
