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Trichosanthes quinquangulata - Fruit - Click to enlarge!

Fruit; Simpang Empat, West Sumatra, Indonesia; 8/1998 © Jörn Germer

Trichosanthes quinquangulata - Flower - Click to enlarge!

Flower; Simpang Empat, West Sumatra, Indonesia; 8/1998 © Jörn Germer

Trichosanthes quinquangulata - Leaf and Tendril - Click to enlarge!

Leaf and Tendril; Simpang Empat, West Sumatra, Indonesia; 8/1998 © Jörn Germer

Trichosanthes quinquangulata - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Simpang Empat, West Sumatra, Indonesia; 8/1998 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 225
Date of entry: 23.12.2005
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

Mandarin: 五角栝楼 (wu jiao gua lou)

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2659)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2167)

      Order: Cucurbitales (26)

        Family: Cucurbitaceae (26)(family description)

          Genus: Trichosanthes (5)

            Epithet: quinquangulata A. Gray (1)

quinquangulata => five-angled

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: liana

Flower colour: white

External links

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