Cucumis zeyheri

Botanical Description

Cucumis zeyheri is a herbaceous, perennial, occasionally climbing plant with stems up to 2 metres long growing from a woody, fibrous rootstock. The stems scramble over the ground and sometimes climb into the surrounding vegetation, where they attach themselves by means of tendrils[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and medicine.