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  • COMMON NAME: Bitter cucumber
  • ARABIC: حنضلان
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Cucumis melo L. subsp.
  • SYNONYMS: Cucumis trigonous Rox.; C. pubescens Willd.
  • FAMILY: CUCURBITACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs Careeper
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/cl/cucurbitaceae/cucumis/cucumis-melo-l-subsp-melo/cucumis-melo-subsp-agrestis/cucumis-melo-subsp-agrestis-var-agrestis
Perennial, monoecious herb. Stems trailing, slender, elongated up to 60 cm long, with simple filiform, tendrils. Leaves 2-4 cm long and broad, cordate-orbicular, palmately 3-7 lobed, denticulate. Male flowers in small clusters. Female flowers larger mostly solitary, on 1-3 cm long pedicel. Ovary villous-woolly. Fruit ovoid-ellipsoid, rounded or subglobose, velvety, becoming smooth and glabrescent, with 10 green strips, turning yellow when ripe; pulp bitter. Flowering from February to April.
Irrigated and damp places.
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