English: Squirting Cucumber

German: Spritzgurke

Mandarin: 喷瓜 (pen gua)

Portuguese: Pepino De São Gregório

Kingdom: Plantae (2265)

  Phylum: Magnoliophyta (2170)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (1832)

      Order: Violales (55)

        Family: Cucurbitaceae (21) (family description)

          Genus: Ecballium (1)

           Epithet: elaterium (L.) A. Rich. (1)

Synonym: Momordica elaterium L.

elaterium => abstergent, purgative

Climate: sub-tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: yellow

Check for Ecballium elaterium at The Plant List, GBIF or IPNI

• [533] Ecballium elaterium - Plants For A Future database
• [1879] Ecballium elaterium - Flora of China @ efloras.org

• [11] Schönfelder, I. and Schönfelder, P. (1999): Die Kosmos-Mittelmeerflora. Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart, Germany.

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