| South-Indian Cucamelon |
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| File size | 819859 |
| Original date | 11/7/23 3:35 PM |
| Resolution | x |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.06mm |
| Exposure time | 1/100s |
| Aperture | 1.69 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | realme |
| Camera model | realme 11 Pro+ 5G |
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Botanical name: Zehneria hookeriana Family: Cucurbitaceae (Pumpkin family)
Synonyms: Bryonia hookeriana, Pilogyne hookeriana
Synonyms: Bryonia hookeriana, Pilogyne hookeriana
South-Indian Cucamelon is a hairless climber up to 6
m long. Stems are hairless and smooth: tendrils simple. Leaves are
heart-shaped, sharply wavy-toothed, pointedly angled or lobed, the
middle lobe tapering; upper side rough, underside slightly hairy along
the nerves and veins. Male flowers are borne in a simple or proliferous
umbel at the extre-mity of a longish flower-cluster stalk. Female
flowers often several in an umbel at the tip of a long
flower-cluster-stalk, in a different axil from the males, and also
solitary on a simple short flower-cluster-stalk in the same axils with
the (male or female) umbellate flowers. Sepal-tube and ovary are
spherical. Berry is spherical, hairless: seeds flat. South-Indian
Cucamelon is only known from Tamil Nadu, at altitudes of 1600-2000 m.
| Identification credit: S. Kasim | Photographed in Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu. |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,