뱀오이(蛇頭오이)

학명 : Trichosanthes anguina L.

학명 이명: Trichosanthes cucumerina subsp. anguina (L.) Greb. (국표식)

분류 : 박과(Cucurbitaceae) /하늘타리속

  

사진: 2019.08. 11  하늘공원

(노랑)하늘타리는 암수딴그루지만 뱀오이는 암수한그루이다

  

 

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Trichosanthes anguina Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 1008. 1753.

蛇瓜 she gua

(학명 이명)

Trichosanthes cucumerina Linnaeus var. anguina (Linnaeus) Haines.

(설명)

Plants annual. Stems slender, branched, angular, puberulent. Petiole 3-7 cm; leaf blade suborbicular or orbicular-reniform, 8-16 × 6-18 cm, membranous, ± deeply 5(rarely 3-7)-lobed; lobes usually obovate, abaxially densely puberulent, adaxially subglabrous, margin finely denticulate. Plant monoecious. Male raceme usually 8-15-flowered; peduncle 10-18 cm, puberulent; pedicel erect, 5-12 cm, minutely spreading bracteate, bracts 3(-5) mm; calyx tube subcylindric, slightly dilated at apex, 2.5-3 × 4-5 mm, puberulent; segments reflexed, ca. 2 mm. Female flowers solitary; peduncle up to 1 cm; ovary narrowly fusiform, ± villous. Fruit very long, cylindric, 100-200 × 3-4 cm, smooth, sometimes contorted. Seed oblong, 11-17 × 8-10 mm, finely rugulose, margin undulate. Fl. and fr. summer-autumn.

Cultivated in China [cultivated throughout the tropics].

The fruit is eaten as vegetable. The roots and seeds are used medicinally for treating diarrhea.

One of us (Jeffrey) treats this taxon as Trichosanthes cucumerina var. anguina.

 

 

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