Thanks Balkar i, I hope you are right: young fruit like cucumber, mature like melon. This is what we had seen in Pachmarhi also. Botanically Cucumis momordica Roxb. now correctly known as Cucumis melo L. subsp. agrestis var. momordica (Roxb.) Cogn.
Hope we are right. -- PS: Please bear with missing j in text, culprit keyboard of my make shift laptop 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 Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Balkar Singh <balkara...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sir This looks like "Phoont" (local name) to me > > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> This fruit popular in Rajasthan under the name Khakri was also seen by us >> in Pachmari, a cucumber like fruit but tasting more of a melon. I am not >> able to place with conclusion. Any information please. Could it be in any >> way related to Puna Kheera. >> >> >> <https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-KdNgz1xNsOs/T3q1r9kMl1I/AAAAAAAAArw/xKOTu7Irypk/s1600/Cucumis-melo-Khakri-Rajasthan-1.jpg> >> Cucumis-melo-Khakri-Rajasthan-1 >> >> >> >> <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-arNY_0oZY2Q/T3q137E7aqI/AAAAAAAAAr8/9JyHZQobg5E/s1600/Cucumis-melo-Khakri-Rajasthan-2.jpg> >> Cucumis-melo-Khakri-Rajasthan-2 >> >> >> Gurcharan Singh >> > > > > -- > Regards > > Dr Balkar Singh > Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology > Arya P G College, Panipat > Haryana-132103 > 09416262964 >
