Botanical family · Cucurbitales
Cucurbitaceae
Cucumber/Gourd family
33 species in this family
The gourd or cucumber family, one of the most important vegetable-producing families: cucumber, pumpkin, watermelon, melon, and bitter gourd. Mostly climbing herbs with tendrils, unisexual flowers, and large fleshy pepo fruits. Almost exclusively found in warm climates.
- Tendrilled climbing or prostrate herbs
- Unisexual flowers (monoecious)
- Pepo fruit (modified berry with hard rind)
Species in CUCURBITACEAE
- Winter MelonBenincasa hispida
- Colocynth, Indian Wild Gourd, Citron, Bitter apple, Vine of SodomCitrullus colocynthis
- WatermelonCitrullus lanatus
- Ivy Gourd, Scarlet gourd, TindoraCoccinia grandis
- Redfruit CreeperCorallocarpus epigaeus
- Muskmelon, SweetmelonCucumis callosus
- MuskmelonCucumis melo var. agrestis
- Melon, Cucumber, Common cucumberCucumis melo var. melo
- Wild CucumberCucumis prophetarum
- CucumberCucumis sativus f. hardwickii
- winter squashCucurbita maxima
- Crooknecked Squash, Musk MelonCucurbita moschata
- PumpkinCucurbita pepo
- Lollipop ClimberDiplocyclos palmatus
- Stinky HaapKedrostis foetidissima
- Bottle gourd, Calbash gourdLagenaria siceraria
- angled luffaLuffa acutangula
- Sponge Gourd, Smooth Loofah, Vegetable spongeLuffa aegyptiaca
- Bitter MelonMomordica charantia
- Teasle GourdMomordica dioica
- Teasle GourdMomordica subangulata
- Madras Pea PumpkinMukia maderaspatana
- ChayoteSicyos edulis
- Creeping CucumberSolena amplexicaulis
- Wild Snake Gourd, Malabar PatolaTrichosanthes cucumerina
- Red-ball Snake GourdTrichosanthes tricuspidata
- Mysore CucamelonZehneria maysorensis
- Wild CucumberZehneria scabra
- Bryonopsis laciniosa
- Ctenolepis garcini
- Gymnopetalum wightii
- Mukia leiosperma
- Zehneria maysorensis var. umbellata
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