Hello ! This is Cyclanthera pedata Schrader (Cucurbitaceae).
Best, G S Rawat --- On Sep 20, 8:01 pm, "nabha meghani" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hallo, > here are some more pictures of sweet karela. > After waiting for a while for some replies, I prepared the karelas > yesterday. They were not 'sweet', but they were also not bitter. > I am still alive. But I think, I wud eat only a few of them at a time. > I don't know, if my plants survive the winter. Will see. > > Reghards > Nalini > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Devendra Bhardwaj" <[email protected]> > To: "indiantreepix" <[email protected]> > > Cc: "nabha meghani" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 2:27 AM > Subject: Fw: [indiantreepix:17814] sweet karela > > Forwarding again for Id confirmation pl. > Earlier relevant feedback: > > Nabha ji > you seem to have found a and photographed one of the least known plants. > Meetha karela, Bhaat karela, Kheksa, Padora, Kakaura, Kaksa all names of > spinegourd, A plant with many virtues, and botanically Momordica dioica > Roxb. > > Your plant is is not clearly this species. There is no information on > the net, not even common names of what I think is your plant, perhaps > Gomphogyne cissiformis Griff, growing in Kumaon, Sikkim and Lachoong. > You have to confirm the size of fruit (length), size of seed, and > whether latter has small tubercles (teeth like structures) at ends. > > The plant is very poory known, and my identification is purely on the > basis of scanty information. It needs critical scrutiny by other members. > > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College > University of Delhi, Delhi > India > > Gurcharan ji, > thanks for your feed back. I havn't eaten the fruits yet so i can take more > fotos and send them here. > Well. sweet karela was also not known to me, till ivisited sikkim. It was > sold in one shop where we stopped for Lunch and if i remember ok, the hotel > and the sho were on the main road to Gangtok along the Teesta river. Perhaps > there are people from Sikkim or Bengal in the group who may have some more > ideas. > The fruits are longish, the tip is bent a bit, and the fruits have a few (3 > or 4) thorn like things, but very thin like hair perhaps 1 to 1,5 cm long > Here one can read about sweet > karelahttp://www.livemint.com/2008/10/31232217/The-secrets-of-Sikkim.htmlbut > the > picture is not of s.k. > inwww.avani-kumaon.org/annual_reports/anrep04-05(E).docthere a ref to > s.k.. > > Perhaps there are people from Sikkim or Bengal in the group who may have > some more ideas. > Regards > Nalini > > Nabha ji > Your first link did not open. The second link leads to page that lists Sweet > karela, but as I told you earlier, most people know sweet karela as > Momordica dioica. Your plant is much different from this. > > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College > University of Delhi, Delhi > India > > --- On Mon, 7/9/09, nabha meghani <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: nabha meghani <[email protected]> > > Subject: [indiantreepix:17814] sweet karela > > To: "indiantreepix" <[email protected]> > > Date: Monday, 7 September, 2009, 2:23 AM > > > Hallo, > > in Feb 2009 I visited > > Sikkim. One Sabjiwala > > gave me some seeds of sweet karela. I put them in a pot in > > April. > > In the beginning it did > > not want to grow, the > > summer was very dry. Now it is raining a lot and the > > Karelas are getting > > bigger everyday. > > I shall be able to > > harvest 7 Karelas > > now. > > I shall enjoy eating > > karelasabji and > > remembering my trip to Sikkim. > > Until my visit to Sikkim I > > did not know that > > Karelas are also sweet. I knew only the bitter > > ones. > > Does this Plant have an > > ID? > > > Regards > > Nalini > > See the Web's breaking stories, chosen by people like you. Check > out Yahoo! Buzz.http://in.buzz.yahoo.com/ > > > > Sweet-Karela-seeds-4602-k.JPG > 59KViewDownload > > Sweet-Karela-4594-k.JPG > 68KViewDownload > > Sweet-Karela-4598-k.JPG > 93KViewDownload --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
