Sir we call long fruit as Ghia and Round as Tindus On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> *Lagenaria siceraria* (Molina) Standley in Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist. > Chicago, Bot. Ser. 3:435. 1930. > syn: *Cucurbita* *siceraria* Molina > > Common names: Bottle gourd, Ghia kaddu, Dudhi, lauki > > Annual climber easily differentiated by its large white flowers and green > bottle-shaped to spherical fruits, hairy when soft skinned and smooth when > fully grown, becoming yellowish and hard when mature and left for seedset. > > Photographed from Delhi and Kashmir. > > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BWEYAEm8z5s/T3-5BGNjp_I/AAAAAAAAA7c/a7cDHu43D64/s1600/Lageneria-ciceraria-Balgarden-P1110675-Kashmir-2.jpg> > Lageneria-ciceraria-Balgarden-P1110675-Kashmir-2 > > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-MNQbqqu1M-U/T3-5O0oYa1I/AAAAAAAAA7o/CpkzsyNOf3I/s1600/Lageneria-ciceraria-Balgarden-P1110881-Kashmir-4.jpg> > Lageneria-ciceraria-Balgarden-P1110881-Kashmir-4 > > > > <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Cl0d9vMsllg/T3-5jhxqYOI/AAAAAAAAA70/QU0gZtdENhc/s1600/Lageneria-ciceraria-Vikas+puri-P1140249-Delhi-1.jpg> > Lageneria-ciceraria-Vikas puri-P1140249-Delhi-1 > > > > <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-yUuOEbZ0G68/T3-5v_ZGkAI/AAAAAAAAA8A/v7N8gkDo6XQ/s1600/Lageneria-siceraria-Balgarden-DSC06150-Kashmir-1.jpg> > Lageneria-siceraria-Balgarden-DSC06150-Kashmir-1 > > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bTFcMsc7fo8/T3-6CYhChvI/AAAAAAAAA8M/6nbEev_w-eQ/s1600/Lageneria-siceraria-Balgarden-DSC06154-Kashmir-3.jpg> > Lageneria-siceraria-Balgarden-DSC06154-Kashmir-3 > > > > <https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ARQpaN2lR9U/T3-8EyFXtrI/AAAAAAAAA8Y/M-c1sDYRris/s1600/Lageneria-ciceraria-Vikas+puri-Delhi-5.jpg> > Lageneria-ciceraria-Vikas puri-Delhi-5 > > > > <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/--yYAojYoaZY/T3-8QiePbyI/AAAAAAAAA8k/VOM2gpHfrHk/s1600/Lageneria-ciceraria-Vikas+puri-Delhi-6.jpg> > Lageneria-ciceraria-Vikas puri-Delhi-6 > > > > Gurcharan Singh > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
