*Dosakaya* is confirmed as *Cucumis melo *as per discussions in another thread<https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-GB#!topic/indiantreepix/nT8Mqi6DqtA> .
On 5 June 2013 20:39, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Vijayasankar ji for the pdf > I find a number tangles in the Taxonomy of Cucumis species. > My latest puzzle is Dosakaya (and possibly Mangalore cucumber vellarika). > I had thought this to be Cucumis sativus only based on few entries on the > net including, but having seen the fruits in California, I found it > difficult to reconsile with C. sativus. The following link and attached pdf > compel me to think that it may be C. melo subsp. agrestis var. dudaim. > Your comments please!! > > > http://chivukulakitchen.blogspot.in/2010/04/dosakaya-pacchadi-round-yellow-cucumber.html > > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > > > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 3:17 AM, Vijayasankar <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Thanks Gurcharan ji for the revisit. >> >> My understanding about C. prophetarum is that its fruits are spiny (may >> be variable from softly echinate to tuberculate) and with vertical >> striations of dark and light green bands. >> This is based on our collection from Bellary dt., Karnataka that also >> looked exactly as shown in this >> link<http://www.kcb-samen.ch/shop/?cPath=1403_1425&osCsid=25cd>as C. >> prophetarum. If I am confused, I think I am not alone :) pl see this >> thread<https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/indiantreepix/ATuGjhesR7M> >> . >> >> Flora of >> Pakistan<http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=108642>describes >> the fruits of this species as "...softly >> echinate OR tuberculate" in the key. >> ENVIS checklist of Flora of >> TN<http://tnenvis.nic.in/tnenvis_old/PDF/floralchecklist.xls>as well as >> Fl.Pres.Madras (attached) do not list C. sativus var. >> hardwickii. They however enlist C. prophetarum. >> As per the literature, C. sativus var. hardwickii (or C. hardwickii) is >> restricted to northern India and some say only western Himalaya and FoC >> mentions NE India. >> In this situation, I eagerly look forward to know the id the plant that >> is found wild in southern India. If C. prophetarum has only the form as >> shown in the links given by you, then I realize that I am yet to see the >> species. >> >> Since you corrected me a couple of times, I am cautious now. But the >> older threads need to be updated too. >> >> Thank you >> >> >> Regards >> >> Vijayasankar Raman >> National Center for Natural Products Research >> University of Mississippi >> >> >> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Dear members >>> I was just checking some Curcurbitaceae uploads, and noticed that in at >>> least 8 threads C. prophetarum was suggested as identification of the >>> plant, which mostly turned out to be Cucumis sativus var. hardwickii, and >>> one as Cyclanthera, and none to date as C. prophetarum. >>> I request members to hunt for the plants of C. prophetarum and >>> upload the same. It would be a real addition to the group. Here is how it >>> will look. >>> >>> http://www.arkive.org/cucumis/cucumis-prophetarum/image-G122362.html >>> >>> http://aquiya.skr.jp/zukan/Cucumis_prophetarum.html >>> >>> http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cucumis_prophetarum.JPG >>> >>> I would especially request Vijayasankar ji, who was involved in almost >>> all the threads. >>> >>> -- >>> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >>> Retired Associate Professor >>> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >>> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >>> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >>> http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ >>> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >>> >> >> > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- With regards, J.M.Garg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. 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