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prickly cucumber fruit Echinocystis lobata,Geotagged,Summer,United States Click/tap to enlarge

prickly cucumber fruit

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  1. View Ferdy Christant's profile
    Ferdy Christant
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    Cool looking plant! Can you give a sense of the scale of this fruit? Posted 8 years ago
  2. View morpheme's profile
    morpheme
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    They were medium small - around the same size as a big ripe fig or an Italian plum. We split one open, wondering if they might be edible, but they look pretty mealy/slimy inside. The wiki does say that native americans used to make medicine from them though - I'll bet they are bitter :p. Posted 8 years ago
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    Gary B
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    I think this is Marah oreganus rather than Echinocystis lobata. Posted 6 years ago

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The Prickly cucumber

"Echinocystis" is a monotypic genus in the gourd/melon/cucumber family Cucurbitaceae, with the sole species "Echinocystis lobata", commonly called "wild cucumber", "prickly cucumber", or "balsam apple".

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Similar species: Begonias, Gourds
Species identified by morpheme
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By morpheme

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Uploaded Jul 5, 2017. Captured Jul 4, 2017 15:36 in Yelm-Tenino Trail, Yelm, WA 98597, USA.
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  • X-E2
  • f/1.0
  • 1/250s
  • ISO200
  • 55mm
Captured in the summer. More summer photos.