*I think it is cucumber only Cucumis sativus var. sativus, though not common garden cucumber. Cucumbers some in a variety of shapes and sizes, all characterised by young fruits with few or many tubercles. This one could be the pickling cucumber:* * * *http://www.foodsubs.com/Squcuke.html* * * * <http://www.foodsubs.com/Squcuke.html>Mani ji, it would be useful if you could send photograph of young female flower with ovary in focus and also if possible a ripe fruit to settle the issue.* * * *-- 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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ *
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:36 PM, mani nair <[email protected]> wrote: > Nice photo Dinesh ji, We use this in Dal and Arvi. I had a plant > growing in our balcony. I will send a photo of it later. > > Regards, > > Mani. > > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Yazdy Palia <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This is not cucumber. It is a wild fruit, we have a lot of discussion >> recently. It is normally found around cowsheds as the animals enjoy >> the fruits in the wild and the seeds sprout from the dried cattle >> dropping. We have a lot of it in our area. >> Regards >> Yazdy. >> >> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Cucumis sativus >> > >> > >> > KOO-koo-mis -- from the Greek kykyon meaning, cucumber >> > sa-TEE-vus -- cultivated >> > >> > >> > commonly known as: cucumber • Arabic: خيار khiyar • Assamese: তিয়ঁহ >> tiyoh, >> > তিঁহু tihu • Bengali: শশা sasa • Gujarati: કાકડી kakadi • Hindi: खीरा >> khira >> > • Kannada: ಸೌತೆಕಾಯಿ sautekayi • Kashmiri: लौरू loru • Konkani: तौशे >> taushe • >> > Lushai: fang-hma • Malayalam: വെള്ളരി vellari • Manipuri: থবী thabi • >> > Marathi: काकडी kakadi, कांकडी kankadi, खिरा khira, तवशी tavashi • >> Nepalese: >> > काँक्रो kankro, खिर् khir, खिरो khiro, खिर्-काँक्रि khir-kakri • Oriya: >> > kakudi • Persian: خيار khiyar • Prakrit: खीरओ khira-o • Punjabi: ਖੀਰਾ >> khira >> > • Sanskrit: अल्पणः alpanah, अल्पणकः alpanakah, चर्भटी charbati, ईर्वारुः >> > irvaaruh, क्षीरकः kshirakah, त्रपुलम् trapulam, त्रपुसम् trapusam • >> Sindhi: >> > وَنگيِ vangii • Tamil: வெள்ளரி vellari • Telugu: దోస dosa, కీర kira • >> Urdu: >> > کهيرا khira >> > >> > >> > >> > Attached views from town of Pali (famous for one of super eight temples >> of >> > Lord Ganesha) >> > ... these were posted in earlier thread for ID query ... resolved by >> > Gurcharan ji. >> > ... more views at >> > http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=91314344%40N00&q=Cucumissativus&m=tags >> > >> > >> > >> > Regards. >> > >> > >
