hello everyone,
I think this is wild cucumber ( Zehneria scabra)... this is very
common... we can easily see this in the vicinity of our home...

On Oct 9, 9:15 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.- Hide quoted text -
>
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