Cucumis melo var. agrestis - Wild Melo

❏ Binomial Name : Cucumis melo L

❏ Synonym : Cucumis melo L. var. agrestis

❏ Family : Cucurbitaceae

❏ Common Name : Wild Melo 

❏ Hindi Name : Kachari

❏ IUCN status: Not Evaluated

Cucumis melo Botanical Description

A much branched prostrate annual or perennial herb. Stem generally co¬vered with scabrous hairs, leaves triangular, ovate, 3-5(-7)-lobed, scabrid with rigid hairs: petiole 1-6 cm long. Flowers small, solitary or rarely in pairs or threes, peduncle 5-10 mm long, densely hipsid. Calyx c. 1.5 mm long, subulate. Corolla 6-8 mm long, yellow, lobes ovate-oblong. Fruit ellipsoid, oval-globose, sometimes obscurely trigonous, smooth and glabrescent, 4 x 2.5 cm, generally with dark green stripes. Fl. &Fr.: July-Nov.

Cucumis melo Medicinal uses

❀ The fruits can be used as a cooling light cleanser or moisturiser for the skin

❀ The seed is antitussive, digestive, febrifuge and vermifuge

❀ A paste of the plant is applied as a poultice around the naval when there is difficulty in urinating

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