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Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt, Hort. Suburb. Calcutt. 59 1845. (syn. Bryonia acerifolia D.Dietr.; Bryonia alceifolia Willd.; Bryonia barbata Buch.-Ham. ex Cogn.; Bryonia grandis L.; Bryonia sinuosa Wall.; Cephalandra grandis Kurz; Cephalandra indica (Wight & Arn.) Naudin; Cephalandra moghadd (Asch.) Broun & Massey; Cephalandra schimperi Naudin; Coccinia cordifolia Cogn.; Coccinia grandis var. wightiana (M.Roem.) Greb.; Coccinia helenae Buscal. & Muschl.; Coccinia indica Wight & Arn.; Coccinia loureiriana M.Roem.; Coccinia moghadd (J.F.Gmel.) Asch.; Coccinia moimoi M.Roem.; Coccinia palmatisecta Kotschy; Coccinia schimperi Naudin; Coccinia wightiana M.Roem.; Cucumis pavel Kostel.; Cucurbita dioica Roxb. ex Wight & Arn.; Momordica bicolor Blume);
. commonly known as: gentleman’s toes, ivy gourd • Hindi: कुन्द्रू kunduru • Kannada: ತೊಂಡೆ tonde • Konkani: तेंड्ले tendale • Malayalam: കോവയ്ക്ക kovakkai • Marathi: बिंब bimba, तेंडली tendali, तोंडली tondli • Punjabi: ਕੰਦੂਰੀ kanduri • Sanskrit: बिम्बफल bimbaphala, तुंडिका tundika • Tamil: கோவை kovai • Telugu: bimbika, దొండ donda
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Perennial climbing or spreading herb with 3-5 angled or lobed glistening leaves; flowers white, 4-5 cm across; male and female on different plants; fruit ovoid or oblong, 3-5 cm along up to 2.5 cm broad, green, bright red when ripe.
. kok-SIN-ee-uh — red; often spelled coccinea
GRAN-dees or GRAN-dis — large or spectacular … Dave’s Botanary .
Native to: Africa, Asia and Australia
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Tender fruits are used as vegetable, one of the most well known vegetable of Poor man..;
Makes a delicious green kadi with the green leaves ground with fresh coconut and few spices. In Konkani we call this kadi ‘Tambli’;
It is safe to use the fruits at any stage. I have eaten plenty of ripe fruits when they turn fully red. Its sweet. While the green unripe fruits preferred as a vegetable, we generally avoid the fruits which turned reddish inside because they are more bitter and leathery and hence may change the taste and texture of the curry. Also the fact is the fruits that turned reddish inside, have mature prominent seeds that I don’t prefer to have in the dish. Otherwise, I don’t think it is harm to consume these ripening fruits; .
  This climber is one of the most common one. – Today only I ate the bhaji made from thendli for lunch.
Cucurbitaceae (pumpkin, or gourd family) » Coccinia grandis
Synonyms: Cephalandra indica, Coccinia indica kok-SIN-ee-uh — red; often spelled coccinea
GRAN-dees or GRAN-dis — large or spectacular commonly known as: gentleman’s toes, ivy gourd • Hindi: कुन्द्रू kunduru • Kannada: ತೊಂಡೆ tonde • Konkani: तेंड्ले tendale • Malayalam: കോവയ്ക്ക kovakkai • Marathi: बिंब bimba, तेंडली tendali, तोंडली tondli • Punjabi: ਕੰਦੂਰੀ kanduri • Sanskrit: बिम्बफल bimbaphala, तुंडिका tundika • Tamil: கோவை kovai • Telugu: bimbika, దొండ donda Native to: Africa, Asia and Australia Edible use: … unripe fruit (as VEGETABLE), cooked and eaten
Fruits & Vegetables week: Coccinia grandis the ivy gourd or Kundru: – This vegetable is also common in West Bengal in both cultivated and wild state. As Canada is quite an extension of India due to admirable population of Indians out here we find these vegetable out here too but believe me ivy gourd as well as parwal (Trichosanthes dioica) are imported from India. Due to severe climatic conditions these plants doesn’t do quite well out here even in the summer. –Tondli in Marathi, Tendle in Konkani. My mother makes a delicious green kadi with the green leaves ground My Pics of Coccinia grandis from Lohari Panipat Wildly growing More Pics shot today from a village near Samalkha Panipat The bee with blue stripes belongs to Amegilla genus. The colour is natural It is so very clear. Especially I really admired the third pair of leg with the pollen sac cover clearly visible. The Ivy Gourd creeper from my garden. We call it Kovakka in Malayalam. . hello – a question!: If it is about Coccinia grandis (= C. indica, Cephalandra indica [‘Kovai’ in Tamil]), then I can say that it is safe to use the fruits at any stage. I have eaten plenty of ripe fruits when they turn fully red. Its sweet. While the green unripe fruits preferred as a vegetable, we generally avoid the fruits which turned reddish inside because they are more bitter and leathery and hence may change the taste and texture of the curry. Also the fact is the fruits that turned reddish inside, have mature prominent seeds that I don’t prefer to have in the dish. Otherwise, I don’t think it is harm to consume these ripening fruits. No harm at all… matter of fact the red pulp is very little around the ripening seeds, little though there is its a little sweeter than in green fruit, and of course astringent to the taste… and makes good veggeii… esp if a few are mixed in with the green ones… I know because I have eaten them, tasted them raw, and made into curry… Matter of fact.. even reddened ripening karela also tastes good mixed in… and its seeds heavenly deep fried… So moral of the story: feel free to eat it… no harm done…
Cucurbitaceae Week :: Coccinia grandis in Mumbai:
Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt kok-SIN-ee-uh — red; often spelled coccinea
GRAN-dees or GRAN-dis — large or spectacular… Dave’s Botanary Mar 11, 2007 … Chota Kashmir near Aarey Milk colony, Mumbai
commonly known as: gentleman’s toes, ivy gourd • Hindi: कुन्द्रू kunduru • Kannada: ತೊಂಡೆ tonde • Konkani: तेंड्ले tendale • Malayalam: കോവയ്ക്ക kovakkai • Marathi: बिंब bimba, तेंडली tendali, तोंडली tondli • Punjabi: ਕੰਦੂਰੀ kanduri • Sanskrit: बिम्बफल bimbaphala, तुंडिका tundika • Tamil: கோவை kovai • Telugu: bimbika, దొండ donda Native to: Africa, Asia and Australia References: Flowers of India • TopTropicals • Wikipedia • Dave’s Garden • M.M.P.N.D. • Flowers of Sahyadri by Shrikant Ingalhalikar more views: Jul 11, 2009 … along Ghodbunder Road near Gaimukh, Thane, Maharashtra Feb 26, 2011 … in Bassein fort, Maharashtra
Jul 11, 2009 … along Ghodbunder Road near Gaimukh, Thane, Maharashtra
Sep 23, 2007 … at Pirojshanagar, Mumbai
It is कुंदरू in Hindi, yes available in markets here also, growing wild in plenty
Cucurbitaceae Week: Coccinia grandis from Delhi: syn Coccinia cordifolia sensu Cogn.; Coccinia indica Wight & Arn.
Common names: Ivy gourd
Hindi: Kundru, Ram kachryia
Perennial climbing or spreading herb with 3-5 angled or lobed glistening leaves; flowers white, 4-5 cm across; male and female on different plants; fruit ovoid or oblong, 3-5 cm along up to 2.5 cm broad, green, bright red when ripe.
Common in Delhi . . Cucurbitaceae Week: Coccinia grandis from Panipat:
This one is Coccinia grandis (Linn.) Voigt, Hort. Suburb. Calc. 59, 1845; Bryonia grandis Linn., Mant. Pl. 1: 126, 1767; Coccinia indica Wt. & Arn., Prodr. 347, 1834; Cephalandra indica Naud., Arn. Sci. Nat. (Ser. 5) 5: 16, 1866; Fl. Br. Ind. II: 621 Vern.: Kundru, Kanduri, Ram-kachri.
A perennial herb with tuberous roots. Leaves 5-10 cm, 5-angled or lobed, cordate, shining. Petiole 2-2.5 cm. Flowers white. Calyx-lobes linear-oblong, reflexed. Corolla nearly 2.5 cm, lobes long, triangular. Fruit ovoid or oblong, bright-scarlet. Seeds embedded in red pulp.
Shot from Panipat and surroundings at different times
. Cucurbitaceae Week- Coccinea grandis – Ivy Gourd – 050412 – RK: Very beautiful pics …, you didn’t get the female flower somehow..
Cucurbitaceae week: Coccinia grandis from Hooghly (WB): Last month, keeping in the mind of cucurbitaceae week, i recorded this species with intervals of 6 to 7 days to show different stages of development of its fruits.
Moreover the scientific name of this plant, TELAKUCHO in Bengali, is still unclear to me. Some sources say C. grandis & C. indica are two different species, while the other sources inform me that they are synonyms.
Species : Coccinia grandis L. (syn. C. indica)
NOTE : According to “Plant Groups” (the college text book that i follow) ‘Scarlet gourd’ is Cephalandra indica Naud. = Coccinia cordifolia Cogn.
Date : 15-03-12, 21-03-12, 28-03-12
Place : Gobra (Hooghly), WB Lot of effort..detailed illustration… Hats off to u Please… click here to see the supplementary post!
Cucurbitaceae week: Coccinia grandis (supplementary post) from Hooghly: In my previous post of the same plant i have shown different maturity stage of its fruits. But fruits of that particular plant were yet to fully mature and ripe. Today, i got one ripe fruit and took the opportunity to crush it to show its seed.
Species : Coccinia grandis L. (syn. C. indica)
Date : 05-04-2012, 10.00 a.m.
Place : Gobra (Hooghly), WB
ID : Coccinia grandis (?) from Assam: Yes it is.
VALMIKI : OBSERVER OF NATURE:
SYMBIOSIS:
Attaching an image on symbiosis in which a female of a Koel is eating the fruit of Coccinia grandis. This climber is commonly known as Ivy Gourd. It is known as Bimb/kachri in Hindi and Telakucha in Bangla. Male and female flowers grow on separate plants.                  Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt from Kamrup district(Metro), Assam : Attachments (17). 3 posts by 3 authors. I hope attached images are Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt collected from Kamrup district(Metro). My earlier post – efi thread
Date :05.05.2013
Location: Kamrup district(Metro) Assam
Family : Cucurbitaceae
Genus & species : Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt
Habitat: Grows wild
Habit : Climber
Flower : Large, white Beautiful photographs and great efforts by you in making excellent pictorial presentation of the vegetative and reproductive characters of the plant. It would be very useful if you can post the pictures of the fruits also (when the plant bears fruits).
Hooghly last week : Ixias pyrene on Momordica monadelpha Roxb. [Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt] : Attachments (2). 5 posts by 3 authors. Great photographs.   Gourd For ID : Coccinia grandis : Confirm ID : MNP,Mumbai : 250613 : AK-3 : Attachments (2). 5 posts by 3 authors.
The flower & fruit both seen by me on 22/4/2013 at MNP, Mumbai. Is this the edible Ivy Gourd or a wild species? Yes … Very good photographs. Nice pictures … Have you tried the leaf as vegetable? Keerai kuzhambu made out of leaves is one of my favorites! No I haven’t tried the leaves. Years ago, we had it in our Nasik home garden. Must try out the fresh leaves. .   Yes … Nice photographs.
Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt from Kamrup district, Assam : Attachments (8). 1 post by 1 author.
Attached images are Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt collected from Kamrup district, Assam. My earlier upload (efi thread).
Date :14.08.2013
Location: Kamrup district, Assam
Family : Cucurbitaceae
Genus & species : Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt
Habitat: Grows wild
Habit : Climber
Flower : Not seen
Fruits : green and red when ripen
Coccinia grandis, flowers and fruits: Attachments (4). 3 posts by 2 authors.
Coccinia grandis, Chandigarh last week (25.9.13)
December 2013:: NS 26::Trichosanthes for id from Chakrata.. : Attachments (5). 2 posts by 2 authors.
This cucurbit was shot from Chakrata region this August.. wanted to know the id.. I cannot fit this into any of Coccinia/Trichosanthes known to me, leaves as well flowers vary..
Please suggest… I think Coccinia grandis only
Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt SN April 20 : Attachments (1). 1 post by 1 author.
Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt, (= C. indica L.) Fam: Cucurbitaceae, Ivy gouard, wild variety,
very bitter to taste, cultivated varieties used as vegetable. root tuber, leaves, fruit are used as diabetes medicine. leaves known to cure stomach ulcers.
  ID Request 201014SG : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2). To me it is Coccinia grandis
Hooghly-skDec01- Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt, (cultivated) : 12 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (3)
This is sold as TARULI in local markets and used as vegetable. Interestingly –
These photographs were taken on 3/7/13 Bimbi in sanskrit/ ayurvedic botany books
tindora in gujarati, and in madhya pradesh hindi
nice depiction and cross section, …
my understaniding was that tela kucho that helps liver disorder is a bit different (that’s why cant go by the colloquial names..)…. fruit is pointed at the distal end i think sort of like a triangular end …. (????) vs bimbi is rounded at shoulders and one end is narrowed but still cylindrical… real tela kucho and this bilimbi /tindora : botanically more differences exist .. … had made a key way back when Hyan Didi, duto phal – telakucha ar eiti anektai alada dekhete. Satyi bolte ki ami bhabtam taruli hochchhe Solena, kintu amake ekjan, je chash koreche eksamay, phuler ja size dekhalo tate kakhonoi Solena hote pare na. onakeyi jigish korte hobe
ami hoyto bhul oto kotrte pari cucurbita family week e hoyto Didi, keu keu eke KUNDRI o bole thake. yes that’s what i buy it as kundri kundru or even kundro Yes …, the sellers here also say that this is cultivated in 24-parganas. As per Cucurbitaceae of India (Renner and Pandey, 2013) and paper supplied by Renner recently on our group, the correct name is Solena umbellata, and it grows only in Sri Lanka and South India, not Bengal. The plant growing in NE India is Solena heterophylla, which does not have a beak at all, nor pointed or narrowed end. This is the fruit represented in my book, and clicked by …. I think it has no comparison with Coccinia grandis in fruit or flower. all this is confusing me this paper and this picture shows a narrowed end at one end… narrow end is still cylindrical… this is the Bimbi or Tindora I had seen and eaten in Gujarat and parts of UP and MP… decade ago… we don’t get it in Bengal I think these fruits are similar to the 3rd photograph in page 70 of your book. In no way it can be a Solena which has 20 or less number of seeds, seeds being ellipsoid (Haines) or nearly globose or somewhat elongated (“Review of the genus Solena”).
Yes, we have Solena heterophylla here. Attached here entries by Haines. Here is … post
There are some sites that show my kind of fruits, but don’t know how authentic they are –
Thank you
2015april_sk03/03 : Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt (possibly cultivated var.) : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (5)
was n’t there a complete flower? No, Didi, there wasn’t any fresh flower. I will have to revisit to see if I can get one. This was a kitchen garden with gourd, brinjal, tomato and some other vegetables.
Spotted this climber in a cultivated garden in Thane, Maharashtra in December 2016.
Requested to please ID the same. Coccinia grandis? Is it? Thank you so much … I have seen the flowers many a time but never the fruits.
Location: New Town Eco Park
Kolkata, India
Date: 10 September 2017
Elevation : 25 ft. Should be Coccinea indica… Thank you … Coccinia indica Wight & Arn ?? Pl. check in efi site. https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a—l/cl/cucurbitaceae/coccinia/coccinia-grandis Checked but could not decide! I think close as suggested by … Coccinea indica is a syn. of Coccinia grandis as per the link given by me. Thank you …! Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt
White flower of Sri Lanka : 4 posts by 2 authors. 1 image.
I think this flower is a Convolvulaceae but I do not know how to go to the species.
Photo taken 18/02/2018 in Kawudupelella-Matale District-SriLanka.
If anyone to an idea thank you in advance!
Could it be Coccinia grandis ? Big thank you …!
I focused on the Convolvulaceae while the tendrils should have made me look in the Cucurbitaceae ….
Re: Coccinia grandis : 5 posts by 3 authors. 1 image.
This climber is from Kavali, Andhra Pradesh
Kindly identify
in wild??? seems to be over-ripe patol. i understand that Patol has to be planted by planting roots and have to be taken care of diligently. is that a myth propagated by farmers?
they also prevented me from going in their plantation saying women are not allowed in their plantation. women of any age, particularly childbearing age. that was in Hooghly district about five or 6 years ago. i am baffled.
i shall appreciate it if these myths be supported/ validated or erased You seem to be right as per images at Coccinia grandis
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Coccinia grandis :: Puducherry :: 14 OCT 19 : 6 posts by 3 authors. 4 images.
Puducherry near sea coast Dates, various: October 14 – 15, 2019 … Altitude range: about 0 – 3 m (0 – 10 feet) asl
Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt
tindora. ayurvedic texts say it reduces the brain?// buddhi Thank you, … I eat some of its preparations !! me too. but when i went to a post grad study in ayurvedic univ twenty or so years ago, one of the professors we liked, told us that “you gujaratis become stupid because u eat tindora”
those days i was not able to get tindoras so i did not take it personally but now in ganges delta, we get them. i am now self-conscious about eating them…
Coccinia grandis : Cucurbitaceae : Gujarat : 02JAN20 : AK-1 : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (4)
My first post for this year. A lot of these climber were seen by the roadside on the way from Baroda to Rajpipla.
The local driver said that these were wild, bitter to taste and not eaten.
Are these any different from the ones we eat as a vegetable?
To me they looked the same.
As much as I know, wild ones are not bitter. I regularly see poors, particularly road and construction workers, picking it from wild vines. Occasional bitter ones, yes. Thanks a lot for the clarification and additional information. I take it as Coccinea grandis.
. identification of climber: 1 high res. image.
Please kindly help me to identify this climber which i found from very low elevation Assam area. Looks like Cucurbitaceae member. Probably Coccinea species. Please send habit picture, and few more other photos of the leaves, top view of the flowers etc. for proper ID. Yes, it might be Coccinea grandis as per …, Send some more information like Habit, leaves or fruits Is a subtropical broadleaf forest Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt looks close but please post habitat, leaf, flower frontal etc for easy identification ! Thanking you sir for identification of climber species . Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt: 7 very high res. images.
Location: West Nepal Altitude: 632m. Date: 10 August 2021 Habit : Wild Nepali Name : गोल काँक्री Gol Kaakree . Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt: 7 very high res. images. Location: Ride, Palpa
Altitude: 1300m.
Date: 31 August 2021
Habit : Wild    Need ID: Cucurbit whimsical leaves: 3 images. Neemrana Sandy soils
Aug 1/8/2022 Pl. check Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt ! I do not think it matches with images at Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt I guess it matches with . Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt :: Waghbil, Thane, Maharashtra :: Jul 3, 2021 · 8:30 AM IST: 2 images. . Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt :: Waghbil, Thane, Maharashtra :: Sep 27, 2008 · JUN23 DV93: 1 image. Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt
Waghbil, Thane, Maharashtra :: Sep 27, 2008 · 3:35 PM IST :: about 3 m (10 ft) asl
Mix of plants in this observation; the leaves belong to some other plant. The fruit belongs to Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt . Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt :: Shirgaon, Palghar :: Feb 26, 2023 · JUN23 DV424: 2 images.
Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt
Shirgaon, Palghar :: Feb 26, 2023 · 11:15 AM IST :: about 14 m (46 ft) asl
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The Plant List Flowers of India TopTropicals Wikipedia Dave’s Garden M.M.P.N.D. Entity Display : Coccinia grandis SpringerLink – Journal Article Plants and People of Nepal – Google Book Search Antidyslipidemic activity of polyprenol from Coccinia grandis in high-fat diet-fed hamster model | Phytomedicine: International Journal of Phytotherapy & Phytopharmacology | Find Articles at BNET Coccinia Indica, Kundru Herb, Benefits, Information Trichosanthes tricuspidata information from NPGS/GRIN pharm1.pharmazie.uni-greifswald.de.jpg depressioncell.jpg
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