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Botanical Name: Cucurbita maxima
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Family: Cucurbitaceae
Common Name: भोपळा
Etymology - Genus: Latin name for the gourd
Etymology - Species: Ripe, large fruit
Ecosystem: Annual
Origin: Native
Location: India
Description: Annual climber, grows very rapidly completing its lifecycle with a season. Stem grows thick with sharp hairs. Since the fruit is huge and heavy, the vine crawls along the ground.Simple leaf with a presence of tendril at the leaf node. Tendril coils around the support.Pubescent leaf with 3-5 triangular lobes.Male and female flowers appear singly in a leaf axil. Male with long peduncle and female wit short peduncle.Male and female flowers are born on same plant. Orange flowers are size of a palm.Flowers are yellow, with minute hairs on petals. Female flower has a lemon size ovary below the calyx. Sepals are linear, petals are in bell shape.Fruit is green, and grows into a huge and heavy round shape at maturity.Many flat seeds are embedded in a orange pulp.
Root type: Taproot
Stem Appearance: Climber
Stem Cross Section: Angled
Stem Texture: Green with sharp hair
Root-Stem-Bark Description: Annual climber, grows very rapidly completing its lifecycle with a season. Stem grows thick with sharp hairs. Since the fruit is huge and heavy, the vine crawls along the ground.
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Leaf - Characters
Attachment: Petiolate
Stipules: Tendrillar
Leaf Type: Simple
Phyllotaxy: Alternate-Spiral
Leaf Description: Simple leaf with a presence of tendril at the leaf node. Tendril coils around the support.
Leaflet - Characters
Lamina: Palmate
Lamina Bases:
Lamina Margins: Serrate
Lamina Apices: Acute
Lamina Texture: Pubescent
Venation: Reticulate-Unicostate
Leaflet Description: Pubescent leaf with 3-5 triangular lobes.
Inflorescence - Characters
Inflorescence: Single Flower
Bract: Ebracteate
Inflorescence Description: Male and female flowers appear singly in a leaf axil. Male with long peduncle and female wit short peduncle.
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Photo Description: Female flower
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Photo Description: Female flower
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Photo Description: Female flower
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Photo Description: Male Flower
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Photo Description: Male Flower
Flower - Characters
Flower Type: Monoecious
Flower Symmetry: Actinomorphic
Thalamus Types:
Position of Whorls: Epigynous
Aestivation:
Flower Description: Male and female flowers are born on same plant. Orange flowers are size of a palm.
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Photo Description: Female flower
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Photo Description: Female flower
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Photo Description: Female flower
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Photo Description: Female flower
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Photo Description: Female flower
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Photo Description: Female flower
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Photo Description: Male Flower
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Photo Description: Male Flower
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Photo Description: Male Flower
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Photo Description: Male Flower
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Photo Description: Male Flower
Floral Parts - Characters
Calyx Arrangement: Actinomorphic gamosepalous
Calyx Persistance:
Calyx Number of sepals: 5
Corolla Arrangement: Actinomorphic gamopetalous
Corolla Appendages: na
Corolla Number of petals: 5
Perianth Arrangement: na
Perianth Number of tepals: na
Androecium Attachment of anther:
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Androecium Union of Stamens:
Androecium Number of Stamens: 3
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Floral Parts Description: Flowers are yellow, with minute hairs on petals. Female flower has a lemon size ovary below the calyx. Sepals are linear, petals are in bell shape.
Fruit type: Berry
Fruit type Description: Fruit is green, and grows into a huge and heavy round shape at maturity.
Seed Type: Dicotyledon
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Seed Description: Many flat seeds are embedded in a orange pulp.
