PUBLISHED IN: Annales des Sciences Naturelles; Botanique, série 4, 11: 10. 1859. Published without a description by Schrader in Linnaea 12: 406. 1838.

TYPE: France. Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, 1857, Naudin sn (lectotype, designated Kirkbride, 1993: P!); 1858, Naudin sn (lectoparatype: P); 1859, Naudin sn (lectoparatype: P).

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VERNACULAR NAME: African horned cucumber

OTHER VERNACULAR NAMES: kiwano, horned melon, jelly melon
     Danish: afrika agurk
     Dutch: zuiltjesdragende komkommer
     French: concombre africain, concombre porte bornes, kiwano, melon à cornes
     Italian: kiwano
     Japanese: kiwano furuutsu
     Portuguese: kiwano, pepino africano, kumbundu, umbundu
     Spanish: kiwano

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DESCRIPTION: Fruit spiky, brilliant, gold/orange; flesh emerald green.

CHROMOSOME NUMBER: 2n = 24

DISTRIBUTION: Northern Africa, cultivated elsewhere. Introduced to New Zealand in 1930.

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EDIBLE USE: Fruit, leaf

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OTHER USE: Fruit is decorative.

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