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Ecballium elaterium - Flower - Click to enlarge!

Flower; Castle of Castro Marim, Algarve, Portugal; 8/2008 © Jörn Germer

Ecballium elaterium - Flower - Click to enlarge!

Flower; Castle of Castro Marim, Algarve, Portugal; 8/2008 © Jörn Germer

Ecballium elaterium - Flower - Click to enlarge!

Flower; Zambujeira do Mar, Odemira, Alentejo; 8/2006 © Jörn Germer

Ecballium elaterium - Fruits - Click to enlarge!

Fruits; Zambujeira do Mar, Odemira, Alentejo; 8/2006 © Jörn Germer

Ecballium elaterium - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Castle of Castro Marim, Algarve, Portugal; 8/2008 © Jörn Germer

Ecballium elaterium - Upper side of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper side of leaf; Zambujeira do Mar, Odemira, Alentejo; 8/2006 © Jörn Germer

Ecballium elaterium - Lower side of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Lower side of leaf; Zambujeira do Mar, Odemira, Alentejo; 8/2006 © Jörn Germer

Ecballium elaterium - Branch - Click to enlarge!

Branch; Castle of Castro Marim, Algarve, Portugal; 8/2008 © Jörn Germer

Ecballium elaterium - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Zambujeira do Mar, Odemira, Alentejo; 8/2006 © Jörn Germer

Ecballium elaterium - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Castle of Castro Marim, Algarve, Portugal; 8/2008 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 392
Date of entry: 09.09.2006
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Squirting Cucumber

German: Spritzgurke

Mandarin: 喷瓜 (pen gua)

Portuguese: Pepino De São Gregório

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Cucurbitales (26)

        Family: Cucurbitaceae (26)(family description)

          Genus: Ecballium (1)

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

Synonym: Momordica elaterium L.

elaterium => abstergent, purgative

Characteristics

Climate: sub-tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: yellow

External links

Check for Ecballium elaterium at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

Literature

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

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