About Wild Cucumber
Cucumis prophetarum is a dioecious and prostrate or climbing perennial vine in the family Cucurbitaceae. The specific epithet (prophetarum) comes from Latin propheta, meaning "prophet".
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Cucumis prophetarum
- Genus
- Cucumis
- Family
- CUCURBITACEAE
- Habit
- Climber
- Habitat
- Waste places
- Distribution
- Paleotropics
- Flowering & fruiting
- August-September
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Local Names
- Malayalam
- പീരപ്പെട്ടിക്ക
Botanical family
Cucurbitaceae
Cucumber/Gourd family
Wild Cucumber belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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