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Cucumis maderaspatanus
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Cucumis maderaspatanus

Cucumis maderaspatanus

Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
3/5

Safety & Hazards

Grazing animals eat the leaves, but the fruit is believed to be deadly poisonous to cattle[1]. In India cattle are said to like the plant but that the fruits destroy their eyes[1].

Cultivation Details

HabitAnnual
Growth—

Not known

Propagation

Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Cucumis+maderaspatanus>

Pollinators

Data unavailable

References

  1. [1]The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. — Burkil. H. M. · Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. · 1985 - 2004 ↩︎Brief descriptions and details of the uses of over 4,000 plants. A superb, if terse, resource, it is also available electronically on the Web - see http://www.aluka.org/
  2. [2]Flora Zambesiaca — http://apps.kew.org/efloras/fz/intro.html ↩︎An excellent online flora of plants from the Zambezi River basin. It lists a number of the plant uses as well as the habitats and botanical descriptions of the plants.