Surajit ji If this particular plant is at a place where you can follow it up, you may be able to solve the mystery. Your photograph 312 does not show any foliaceous calyx lobes, but 336 shows clearly foliaceous. Are they are from the same vine?, if not keep track of them. Your image 323 shows the swollen tip of peduncle slightly separated from fruit base as also shown on page 53 of my book. This is one aspect you can perhaps sort out before next printing of my book. I have depicted both types of fruits in my book. Two things that kept me away from Cucucurbita pepo are first leaves not lobed (All plants of C. pepo I have seen in California including Zucchini which is now grown in India have deeply lobed leaves). Besides Book Vegetable Crops by Balakrishnan mentions only chapan kadu as member of C. pepo cultivated in India.
Perhaps you have a very challenging assignment. Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 9:56 AM, surajit koley <[email protected] > wrote: > Good morning Sir > > Attaching photographs male & female flower, fruit, leaves, sepals, > petiole, peduncle/pedicel. Leaf stalk is prickly, petiole sometimes longer > than lamina. Petiole odorous but not intense. > > Thank you, > > Regards, > > surajit > > > > On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:26 PM, surajit koley < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Sir, >> >> I am attaching records from Dr. Prain, Dr. Haines, FBI & FI. It is >> interesting to not that while Dr. Haines thinks *C. melopepo* L. is >> synonymous with *C. pepo* DC, Dr, Prain & Dr. Hooker think otherwise. >> >> The leaves (not photographed yet) of this plant are harsh, and the entire >> plant is somewhat prickly. >> >> >> *C. pepo* DC >> *C. pepo* Willd. iv. 609 *C. moshcata* Duchesne >> *C. melopepo.* Willd. iv. 610. *C. maxima* Duchesne Prain >> >> rigid, pungent hairs on the beneath of petiole; leaves deeply five lobed; >> >> calyx lobes narrow subulate leaf stalk hairy all over, but not pungent >> or rigid hair; >> >> calyx lobes broad spathulate, leafy >> leaf stalk hairy all over, but not pungent or rigid hair; >> >> calyx lobes narrow-subulate Haines leaves harsh, rigid, acute lobed; >> >> >> peduncles sulcate; >> >> corolla narrowed at base, with erect lobes leaves soft, indumentum fine >> & soft; >> >> peduncle pentagonal, >> expanded below the fruit; >> >> sepals often foliaceous leaves harsh, rigid, rounded lobed; >> >> peduncle not sulcate; >> >> corolla lobes curved outwards FBI prickly rigid hair on the beneath of >> the petiole; >> >> peduncle woody, strongly grooved; >> >> hairs of the petiole not pungent; >> >> >> ---------------- >> >> calyx segments spathulate or foliaceous hairs of the petiole not pungent; >> >> peduncle stout corky, striated, not grooved; >> >> calyx segments lanceolate-linear FI fruit sub-cylindric, both ends >> obtuse, suface very even fruit roundish, smooth, torulose ----------- >> >> It is very confusing. >> >> Thank you, >> >> Regards, >> >> surajit >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Surajit ji >>> This fruit had confused me a lot, initially I had also thought it to be >>> C. pepo, but after I saw some older fruits, I noticed features of C. >>> moschata. >>> >>> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >>> Retired Associate Professor >>> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >>> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >>> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >>> http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ >>> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 9:33 PM, surajit koley < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> This one is growing on the roof of our storeroom. It seems to be the >>>> *Cucurbita >>>> pepo <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/indiantreepix/mQuQIkIuzns>*, >>>> but is it *C. pepo* L.? >>>> Both in "Bengal Plants" and in Flora of British India it had been cited >>>> as *C. pepo* DC. >>>> >>>> Thank you, >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "efloraofindia" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>> >>> >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
