Echinate fruits do occur in Cucumis prophetarum, but here prickles are too few and much stronger and thicker.
-- PS: Please bear with missing j in text, culprit keyboard of my make shift laptop 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://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Nidhan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks for the inputs Vijaya Ji, > > These can be a fruit anomaly, but the fruits immediately burst on touching > exposing the pulp. I could not locate any seeds though, you can see a > picture of open fruit, this opening was not attempted by me...you can see > the backward coiling of the dehisced fruit...wish to hear more. > -- > Regards, > > Dr. Nidhan Singh > Department of Botany > I.B. (PG) College > Panipat-132103 Haryana > Ph.: 09416371227 > >
