As realised after Nidhan ji's upload I seem to have mixed two plants. One with globose fruits without dark patches. I am uploading young fruit to complete the series The second plants is locally known as Kachri or Chibbar with oval fruits with lighter colour bur dark green patches. I will try and separate them in different posts.
-- 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 Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Dr Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com>wrote: > Nice illustration of the plant. > Thanks for sharing. > Pankaj > > > > On Tuesday, 3 April 2012 15:27:22 UTC+8, Gurcharan Singh wrote: >> >> *Cucumis melo subsp. agrestis var. agrestis* Naudin, Ann. Sc. Nat. 4, >> Ser. 11:73. 1859 >> syn: Cucumis trigonous Rox.; C. pubescens Willd. >> >> The taxonomy of this group is rather confusing with most wild species >> having been merged under C. melo. It, however looks appropriate to separate >> wild forms under subsp. agrestris and cultivated under subsp. melo. >> >> Common name: Kachri in Delhi, Haryana and Chibar in Rajasthan >> >> Much branched herb with 3-5 lobed leaves, 9-12 mm across yellow flowers >> and oval to ellipsoid fruits, light green with dark green patches. >> >> May be confused with Citrullus colocynthis but latter has leaves deeply >> lobed with narrow pinnately cleft lobes, smaller pale yellow flowers and >> globose fruits. >> >> Photographed from Delhi and Rajasthan >> >> >> <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-sqgMoazQxuM/T3qlHkPAPiI/AAAAAAAAAo8/Yd2kOoXTSsI/s1600/Cucumis-melo-agrestris-agrestris-Vikas-puri-1.jpg> >> Cucumis-melo-agrestris-**agrestris-Vikas-puri-1 >> >> >> >> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-R7KQI9iVqkc/T3qliBs0UFI/AAAAAAAAApI/uQ4ccnEcLao/s1600/Cucumis-melo-agrestris-agrestris-Vikas-puri-2.jpg> >> Cucumis-melo-agrestris-**agrestris-Vikas-puri-2 >> >> >> >> >> <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-n_lHwMFJteg/T3ql61c7j9I/AAAAAAAAApU/GXHztzVUJD4/s1600/Cucumis-pubescens-Chibar-Rajasthan-1.jpg> >> Cucumis-pubescens-Chibar-**Rajasthan-1 >> >> >> >> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-76fcax7m3LU/T3qmKODQhmI/AAAAAAAAApg/Hf5WeP6JPzw/s1600/Cucumis-pubescens-Chibar-Rajasthan-3.jpg> >> Cucumis-pubescens-Chibar-**Rajasthan-3 >> >> >> Gurcharan Singh >> >> >> >>
