Yes Balkar ji This happens with many plants including tomato, often growing on trash and dung heaps. Such situations are better known as escapes and not wild. So now we have to look for three pethas: Agra ka petha (Benincasa hispida for sure) with white flesh, Petha cooked as vegetable and Halwa Kadu (both with yellow flesh). The last two could be one C. maxima, C. moschata, or C. pepo. Which two would be these two, would be interesting to resolve.
Literature does not help much. -- 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 Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Balkar Arya <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Sir > I think flesh is yellow, I'll also try to to check again. This is > cultivated aswell as found wild. Because seedy portion of ripned fruit > always thrown out on roadside areas with cowdung and it appears there also. > However fruits are used for preparing vegetable from both cultivated and > wild plants. But it is not used for preparation of Halwa as per my > information. > Thanks > > > > -- > Regards > > Dr Balkar Singh > Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology > Arya P G College, Panipat > Haryana-132103 > 09416262964 >
