Is it Kachri? I have seen the plant with fruit in my childhood, and few years back got Kachri Ka Achar from Jaipur. It was considered poor folks food-plant those days. Promila On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Yazdy Palia <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Dr. Gurcharan Singh Ji, > I have gone through the link sent by you. The fruit in question is not > one of these. This particular fruit is only around 2" in length and > around 1.2 to 1.5" in diameter. In Malayalam it is called aatanga. It > is bitter and the fruit when ripe has very little flesh most of it is > liquid and seeds. > Regards > I will add the cross section of the fruit a little later today. > Regards > Yazdy. > > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Here is some useful information on Indian cucumbers. > > http://www.seedsofindia.com/category/Cucumbers-18 > > > > -- > > 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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> I think it is cucumber only Cucumis sativus var. sativus, though not > >> common garden cucumber. Cucumbers some in a variety of shapes and sizes, > all > >> characterised by young fruits with few or many tubercles. This one could > be > >> the pickling cucumber: > >> http://www.foodsubs.com/Squcuke.html > >> Mani ji, it would be useful if you could send photograph of young female > >> flower with ovary in focus and also if possible a ripe fruit to settle > the > >> issue. > >> -- > >> 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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > >> > >> > >> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:36 PM, mani nair <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> > >>> Nice photo Dinesh ji, We use this in Dal and Arvi. I had a plant > >>> growing in our balcony. I will send a photo of it later. > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> > >>> Mani. > >>> > >>> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Yazdy Palia <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>>> > >>>> This is not cucumber. It is a wild fruit, we have a lot of discussion > >>>> recently. It is normally found around cowsheds as the animals enjoy > >>>> the fruits in the wild and the seeds sprout from the dried cattle > >>>> dropping. We have a lot of it in our area. > >>>> Regards > >>>> Yazdy. > >>>> > >>>> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected] > > > >>>> wrote: > >>>> > Cucumis sativus > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> > KOO-koo-mis -- from the Greek kykyon meaning, cucumber > >>>> > sa-TEE-vus -- cultivated > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> > commonly known as: cucumber • Arabic: خيار khiyar • Assamese: তিয়ঁহ > >>>> > tiyoh, > >>>> > তিঁহু tihu • Bengali: শশা sasa • Gujarati: કાકડી kakadi • Hindi: > खीरा > >>>> > khira > >>>> > • Kannada: ಸೌತೆಕಾಯಿ sautekayi • Kashmiri: लौरू loru • Konkani: तौशे > >>>> > taushe • > >>>> > Lushai: fang-hma • Malayalam: വെള്ളരി vellari • Manipuri: থবী thabi > • > >>>> > Marathi: काकडी kakadi, कांकडी kankadi, खिरा khira, तवशी tavashi • > >>>> > Nepalese: > >>>> > काँक्रो kankro, खिर् khir, खिरो khiro, खिर्-काँक्रि khir-kakri • > >>>> > Oriya: > >>>> > kakudi • Persian: خيار khiyar • Prakrit: खीरओ khira-o • Punjabi: > ਖੀਰਾ > >>>> > khira > >>>> > • Sanskrit: अल्पणः alpanah, अल्पणकः alpanakah, चर्भटी charbati, > >>>> > ईर्वारुः > >>>> > irvaaruh, क्षीरकः kshirakah, त्रपुलम् trapulam, त्रपुसम् trapusam • > >>>> > Sindhi: > >>>> > وَنگيِ vangii • Tamil: வெள்ளரி vellari • Telugu: దోస dosa, కీర kira > • > >>>> > Urdu: > >>>> > کهيرا khira > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> > Attached views from town of Pali (famous for one of super eight > >>>> > temples of > >>>> > Lord Ganesha) > >>>> > ... these were posted in earlier thread for ID query ... resolved by > >>>> > Gurcharan ji. > >>>> > ... more views at > >>>> > > http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=91314344%40N00&q=Cucumissativus&m=tags > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> > Regards. > >>>> > > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > >
