| Other Names | Drooping melonette, Green melonette, Creeping cucumber, meloncito | ||||||||||||
| Scientific Name | Melothria pendula | ||||||||||||
| Family Name | Gourd ( Cucurbitaceae ) | ||||||||||||
| 5 petals, vine
Twining vine over shrubes and fences. Flower:Separate male and female flowers on the same vine. Male flowers in small clusters. Female usually solitary with ovary below corolla. Leaves: Up to 2 in. broadly five-angled or lobed with sharp points. Fruit: Up to 1.5 in. in diameter. Green with white spots, turning dark with age. | |||||||||||||
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Reference: John and Gloria Tveten Wildflowers of Houston & Southeast Texas p. 142 Niehaus, Ripper, Savage Peterson Field Guide to Southwestern and Texas Wildflowers p. 124 | |||||||||||||
April - November
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