Edible fruit.

Annual herbs, erect initially, later procumbent vine herbs with branches extending to 4 m from center. Stems 10-14 mm in diameter at base, green, pubescent and usually villous towards the apex, with a mixture of numerous simple unicellular trichomes to 0.5 mm long and sparse simple uninervate multicellular trichomes to 3 mm long and composed of up to 10 cells, some gland-tipped, particularly the longer ones, giving the plant a strong scent. Leaves interrupted paripinnate, (10-) 20-35 (+) cm long, (3-) 7-10 (+) cm wide, sparsely pubescent with a mixture of simple unicellular and simple uninervate multicellular trichomes like those of the stems on both surfaces; primary leaflets 3-4 (-5) pairs, 3-7 cm long, 1-4 cm wide, ovate or elliptic, the base oblique and basiscopically decurrent. Inflorescences to 10 cm long, usually simple, rarely with 2 branches, with 5-15-flowers, peduncle less than 3 cm long, pubescent like the stems. Pedicels 1-1.2 cm long, articulated in the distal 1/3. Buds 0.5-0.8 cm long, 0.2-0.3 cm wide, conical, straight, with the corolla about halfway exerted from the calyx just before anthesis. Flowers with the calyx tube minute, the lobes to 0.5 cm long, linear, pubescent with long and short simple uniseriate trichomes the apex acute; corolla 1-2 cm in diameter, pentagonal, bright yellow, often fascinated and with more than 5 lobes in some cultivars, the tube 0.2-0.4 cm long, the lobes 0.5-2 cm long, 0.3-0.5 cm wide. Fruits 1.5-2.5 (-10 in some cultivars) cm in diameter, usually globose, 2-locular, but often of varying shape and/or multilocular, glabrescent and becoming red, yellow or deep orange at maturity; fruiting pedicels 1-3 cm long, straight or angled towards the inflorescence axis at the articulation, thickening in large fruited varieties; calyx lobes in fruit accrescent, ca. 0.8-1 cm long, 0.2-0.25 cm wide, somewhat to strongly reflexed. Flowering from March to Decmber.

Cultivated on private farms and homes.