Wild Cucumber
Zehneria scabra
- Habit
- Climber
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Wild Cucumber
Identify Wild Cucumber by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a climber habit.
- Confirm leaf shape: Ovate.
- Confirm flower colour: Yellow.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Cucurbitaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Wild Cucumber.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Zehneria scabra
- Genus
- Zehneria
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae
- Habit
- Climber
- Habitat
- Semi-Evergreen forests, forest margins
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Distribution
- Tropical Africa, Arabia, India, Java, Philippines
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Sikkim
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- OvaterecordedEgg-shaped, broader near the base.“Its leaves are triangular to ovate in shape, cordate at the base, deep green, and scabrid punctate above.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Wild Cucumber itself; the rest are typical of the Cucurbitaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Yellowrecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Solitary
- Fruit
- Berry
Characters marked “recorded” are for Wild Cucumber itself; the rest are typical of the Cucurbitaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Wild Cucumber
A member of the Cucurbitaceae family, Wild Cucumber (Zehneria scabra) is a climber. In India it has been recorded in Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh and 2 other states. It grows in semi-Evergreen forests, forest margins. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Cucurbitaceae
Cucumber/Gourd family
Wild Cucumber belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family.
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