Trichosanthes cucumerina

Tags: Flowering Plant.

Trichosanthes cucumerina is a tropical or subtropical vine its variety T. cucumerina var. anguina raised for its strikingly long fruit used as a vegetable medicine and in crafting traditional Australian musical instruments known as didgeridoos.

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binomial authority

Carl Linnaeus

class

Eudicots

division

Flowering plant

family

Cucurbitaceae

genus

Trichosanthes

kingdom

Plant

order

Cucurbitales, Rosids

synonym

*Anguina cucumerina (L.) Kuntze), *Cucumis anguinus (L.) L.), *Involucraria anguina (L.) M.Roem.), *Trichosanthes ambrozii (Domin), *Trichosanthes anguina (L.), *Trichosanthes brevibracteata (Kundu), *Trichosanthes colubrina (J.Jacq.), *Trichosanthes pachyrrhachis (Kundu), *Trichosanthes pedatifolia (Miq.), *Trichosanthes petala (Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.), *Trichosanthes cucumerina var. anguina (L.) Haines)