Illinois department of transportation statewide wetland. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. While a native plant, its fastspreading nature makes it potentially weedy. On the presence of three vascular plants, melothria. Melothria scabra, as botanists know it, is often called sandita, little watermelon, in spanish continue reading. Looking for something unusual to add to your vegetable garden. That said, when it comes to the creeping cucumber im not sure you can trust botanists who never get out of the college classroom, or internet experts whove never eaten a wild plant. Presence of cucurbit virus diseases in the midatlantic. The fruit, in jamaica, is the size and shape of a nutmeg, smooth, blackish when ripe, and full of small, white seeds like other cucumbers, lodged within an insipid, cooling pulp. Melothria pendula lady bird johnson wildflower center. The plants database includes the following 3 subspecies of melothria pendula. It is also the plant family to which corn, sugarcane, sorghum, and wheat belong.
Melothria scabra systematik kerneudikotyledonen rosiden eurosiden i ordnung. It is highly esteemed for its medicinal and culinary values, but still mostly unknown outside those regions. Plants profile for melothria pendula guadeloupe cucumber. Mouse melon or mexican sour cucumber, melothria scabra. Pendular definition is being or resembling the movement of a pendulum. Melothria in kew science plants of the world online. The board of trustees of the royal botanic gardens, kew. Cucumbers are herbs, often trailing or climbing by coiled tendrils. Weeds as reservoirs of plant pathogens affecting economically important crops 4 poaceae poaceae, the grass family, includes many of the most common and difficulttomanage weeds.
Cucurbitaceae of the atlantic rainforest of northeastern. The fruit is eaten pickled when green and is good when fully ripe, according to sloane. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Distributional data on three species of vascular plants,melothria pendula, carex extensa, andaneilema keisack, are presented for tidewater maryland. The cucumber family cucurbitaceae is primarily a family of tropical and subtropical species. Browse pictures and read growth cultivation information about cucamelon, mexican sour cucumber, guadeloupe cucumber, creeping cucumber, mouse melon. Melothria pendula creeping cucumber fruit 7307068584. Perennial herbaceous vine, tendrilbearing, severalstemmed at base, fibrousrooted and often. This species has become a newly naturalized species and is locally abundant in central taiwan at roadsides and in crop fields.
Melothria pendula is a very slender, herbaceous vine, but it can grow few meters long stems, that can rapidly cover some shrubs or fences, clinging tight with its tendrils. Boltonia decurrens 1 7 lawrence 14912 na lawrence county wetland bank 57 3 rd. Crambidae 3 damage pickleworm may damage summer and winter squash, cucumber, cantaloupe, and pumpkin. Page 1 of 2 indiana county endangered, threatened and rare. Media in category melothria pendulathe following 9 files are in this category, out of 9 total. The neotropical genus melothria benincaseae, cucurbitaceae is a small group of. Melothria pendula, also known as the creeping cucumber or the guadeloupe cucumber, is a. Melothria pendula melonette curpressaceae, cypress family juniperus virginiana eastern red cedar cyperaceae, sedge family carex albicans var. Everts, university of maryland, plant science and landscape architecture, salisbury, md 21801. Duren, germany, and following the manufacturers manual. Some reports represent new documentations to areas within a state. What links here related changes upload file special pages permanent link page. The atlas of florida plants provides a source of information for the distribution of plants within the state and taxonomic information. Melothria pendula creeping cucumber t 33 mikania spp.
This is the first record of this genus and species for taiwan. To learn more about this different vegetable from central america that resembles miniature striped watermelons, read this article. Browse pictures and read growth cultivation information about melothria species, creeping cucumber, guadeloupe cucumber, speckled gourd melothria pendula supplied by member gardeners in the pla. Cucamelon, mexican sour cucumber, guadeloupe cucumber. This paper describes the morphology of the species and provides a line drawing and a key to the. Pdf melothria domingensis cucurbitaceae, an endangered. Gynura procumbens is a vine, quite popular in south east asia and some parts of central africa. Common name species wap zone page alabama supplejack.
Melothria pendula creeping cucumber, guadeloupe cucumber, squirting cucumber. Melothria pendula creeping cucumber north carolina. Cooperative extension, which staffs local offices in all 100 counties and with the eastern band of cherokee indians. There is also a lot of misinformation about what the plants name means. Melothria pendula plants infected with watermelon mosaic virus 1. Less than five populations of this endangered plant are known from maryland. Generating an epub file may take a long time, please be patient.
It is short lived perennial in tropical climate, and in temperate climate regions with frosts milder than aprox. Melothria domingensis cucurbitaceae, an endangered caribbean. Possible role for melothria pendula creeping cucumber in the. Presence of cucurbit virus diseases in the midatlantic kathryne l. Pdf the neotropical genus melothria benincaseae, cucurbitaceae is a small. S and p in development watermelon mosaic wmv, formerly wmv 2. Guadeloupe cucumber, meloncito, speckled gourd cucurbitaceae cucumber family synonyms. Creeping cucumber melothria pendula creeping cucumber is also known as guadeloupe cucumber and the scientific names melothria nigra, melothria nashii, melothria microcarpa, melothria guadalupensis, melothria fluminensis, melothria fluminensis, melothria edulis and several others. Click below on a thumbnail map or name for subspecies profiles. Melothria species, creeping cucumber, guadeloupe cucumber. There isnt much of a problem with pendula which means suspended, and indeed the little fruits hang on stems off the vine. Stub this article has been rated as stubclass on the projects quality scale. Although it first entered cultivation in germany in the 1850s, it has only recently become popular in commerce. Plant database entry for creeping cucumber melothria pendula with 7 images and 23 data details.
Perennial herbaceous vine, tendrilbearing, severalstemmed at base, fibrousrooted and often with short woody taproot, trailing to procumbent, in range shoots to 400 cm long. Mexican sour gherkin is a rather new name for a cute little fruit that native people of mexico and central america have enjoyed since precolumbian times. Watermelon mosaic virus 1 wmv1 spread rapidly from melothria pendula l. Melothria pendula is one of the rare temperate ones, growing in the eastern half of the united. Request pdf possible role for melothria pendula creeping cucumber in the epidemiology of whiteflytransmitted squash vein yellowing virus. Species name common name fed state page 3 of 4 03092020 indiana county endangered, threatened and rare species list grank srank county. Melothria pendula in the germplasm resources information network grin, u.
Creeping cucumber is a member of the cucumber family family cucurbitaceae. Christopher frye, the maryland state botanist states, brown and brown herbaceous plants of maryland,1984 indicate that melothria pendula is adventive. Carl linnaeus, who invented dead latin names for plants, was the first to call the creeping cucumber melothria pendulabecause it was similar in description to a. Department of agriculture agricultural research service. This article is within the scope of wikiproject plants, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of plants and botany on wikipedia. Mouse melon or mexican sour cucumber is a vine in the cucumber family that produces unique tiny fruits to add interest to salads or appetizer trays. The website also provides access to a database and images of plants photos and herbarium specimens found at. Page 1 of 4 indiana county endangered, threatened and rare. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. Melothria pendula, also known as the creeping cucumber or the guadeloupe cucumber, is a plant in the cucurbiteae tribe. Menyanthes trifoliata buckbean s1 g5 minuartia groenlandica greenland sandwort s1 g5 monarda fistulosa ssp. Melothria pendula the melothria pendula is a little cucumber with a big reputation. The website also provides access to a database and images of herbarium specimens found at the university of south florida and other herbaria. The plant is especially prominent in southeast regions of the united states.
Creeping cucumber herbal medicine an illustrated compilation of philippine medicinal plants by dr godofredo stuart with botanical information, chemical properties, folkloric uses and research studies. The blossom is a favored feeding site, especially for. Crops in this family are vulnerable to infection by a number of viral pathogens. It is a small, ovalrounded, ornamental pear tree that typically reaches 15 tall less frequently to 25 with pendulous or weeping branching. Floristic discoveries in delaware, maryland and virginia dnrec. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern united states. While there are about 12 worldwide, there is only 1 species in the melothria genus in the united states melothria pendula. The alabama plant atlas is a source of data for the distribution of plants within the state as well as taxonomic, conservation, invasive, and wetland information for each species.
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