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Melothria sphaerocarpa
About
Melothria sphaerocarpa is a species of melon native from southern Mexico and the Dominican Republic through Central America to tropical South America. It has been introduced to western tropical Africa, where has been known under the synonym Cucumeropsis mannii, and is grown for food and as a source of oil, more often for the seed oil than for the fruit.
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Melothria sphaerocarpa
- Slug
- melothria-sphaerocarpa
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae
- Genus
- Melothria
- Species
- sphaerocarpa
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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