Yes Nidhan ji. I also had this doubt but mixed up the photographs because some one told me that the plant is kachri or chibbar.
Now it seems we have two different plants. (trying to fit these under C. melo would be again confusing, let us try to fit with original native names). One should be C. pubescens and one C. trigonous. In our collection we have two plants: one with globose fruits without any patches (your plant and mine but without ripe fruits), and second with oval fruits having dark green patches on lighter background (Kachri or chibbar). Let us see if some one is able to get plants of flower of latter. -- 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 Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Nidhan Singh <nidhansingh...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thanks Sir for the reply, > > This seems to me different from Kachri or Chibbar, we used to see, will be > good to dig out further...the fruit shape is globular comapred to oval, the > ripe fruit never turns yellow in kachri...am I right Sir? > > > -- > Regards, > > Dr. Nidhan Singh > Department of Botany > I.B. (PG) College > Panipat-132103 Haryana > Ph.: 09416371227 > >
