Trichosanthes edulis
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Description
Climber or creeper, sometimes rooting at the nodes, to 10 m long, brown hairy, late glabrescent, leafy stem 3-5 mm diam.;
Leaves:
Fruit ripening evenly orange or red, narrowly ellipsoid or (long) pyriform, 10-25 by 5-7 cm, apex ± acute;
Seeds densely packed, compressed, narrowly elliptic and ± parallel-sided or obtriangular (broad at apex), 10-15 by 4-8 by 1-2 mm, ± truncate or notched at one or both ends, with or without a longitudinal depression in the middle, margin broad, edge entire or sometimes finely crenulate.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present)
Malesia: New Guinea; 3 varieties; also Philippines (see note).