As much as I know , wild ones are not bitter .I regularly see poors , particularly road and construction workers , picking it from wild vines . Occasional bitter ones , yes . Cucurbits can be bitter occasionally , I know from experience . Our Indian Desi Cucumber is famous for bitterness , particularly on caudal end and sometimes whole . Luffa cylindrica , Luffa acutangula , Lagenaria vulgaris , Trichosanthes dioica , Kakdi ... bitter pieces are encountered time and again . In Coccinea grandis , what is grown is a selection and propagation of non-bitter variety year on year . When a farmer encounters bitter vine , he will simply uproot it . Dinesh sir , in Gujarat it is called Giloda and Tindoda . In Bihar , Kundari . I left home in 85 . Till then Coccinea grandis was not introduced as vegetable , at least in my area (Siwan) and in Patna and Bhagalpur .But diabetics were known to gather it from wild vines and use it as vegetable . Interestingly , wild growth was known as Tirkol तिरकोल . By 95 it was an established vegetable in markets of Bihar . I came to Gujarat in 96 and it was already there .
On Thu, Jan 2, 2020, 19:34 Aarti S. Khale <[email protected]> wrote: > My first post for this year. > A lot of these climber were seen by the roadside on the way from Baroda to > Rajpipla. > The local driver said that these were wild, bitter to taste and not eaten. > Are these any different from the ones we eat as a vegetable? > To me they looked the same. > Aarti > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CAJ6xDqZw7H-ai2ZC8Rr2gcBSg86PQrMadhnsE_xuTt8MkOBzWg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CAJ6xDqZw7H-ai2ZC8Rr2gcBSg86PQrMadhnsE_xuTt8MkOBzWg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CACeZjXhBP%3Dp5ocU_%3DAxrOkiHW8X1iF%3Dqz6Y7zXfs5DTyA2j4fQ%40mail.gmail.com.
