Telfairia pedata commonly known as oysternut (alternately spelled as ‘oyster nut’ etc.) queen’s nut Zanzibar oilvine (alternately spelled as ‘oil vine’ etc.) is a dioecious African liana which can grow up to 30 metres long having purple-pink fringed flowers and very large (30–90 cm × 15–25 cm) many-seeded drooping ellipsoid berries which can weigh up to 15 kg (though one old source from 1882 claimed up to 60 lbs). It is valuable for having edible fruit seeds and oil.
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binomial authority
James Edward Smith
class
Magnoliopsida
division
Flowering plant
family
Cucurbitaceae
genus
Telfairia
kingdom
Plant
order
Cucurbitales
synonym
*Fevillea pedata (Sm. ex Sims) (basionym), *Joliffia africana (Bojer ex Delile)
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