in kannada called as soutekai madhuri
________________________________ From: mani nair <[email protected]> To: Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> Cc: Yazdy Palia <[email protected]>; Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>; efloraofindia <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, 9 October, 2010 3:41:23 PM Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:50082] NATIVE :: Cucurbitaceae (pumpkin, or gourd family) » Cucumis sativus Dear Gurcharan ji, sorry, what I meant was another cucurbit which is known as Brown cucumber which we use as a vegetable in Dal. I was confused by the Malayalam name "Vellari". I think the cucurbit in Dinesh ji's photo is the wild cucumber which is bitter in taste and in Malayalam it is called "aatanga" , I do not know the English name of it. I am attaching two photos taken last year of the Brown cucumber which was growing in a pot. Sorry, I did not take any flower photo. Regards, Mani. not brown cucumber, but it is a bitter variety of cucumber which nobody eats. In Malayalam Vellarikka is the brown cucumber, which we put in dal. On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: 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 > > >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. >>>> >>> >> > > > >
