*Cucurbitaceae week: Bottle gourd sacrificed in the blaze - Going, going, gone...!
Bottle gourd grows wild along the sugar cane fields in my place. The sugar cane crop is cut and after few weeks on one night fields are left to burn, hundreds of bottle gourd get sacrificed in the blaze, though a few do manage to survive. Lagenaria siceraria Family: Cucurbitaceae * *Native species Kannada Sorekayi Mudlu Koppal village, Krishnarajanagara Mysore district April 1 2011 Regards Raghu *
