Annual herb . Stems climbing or trailing , up to 5 m long , sulcate-angular , pubescent . Leaves entire or palmately shallowly 5-lobed , base cordate , apex acute or acuminate , margins entire but with minute teeth , scabrid , petiolate ; tendrils 5(-6)-fid , puberulent . Inflorescence monoecious . Flowers yellow ; sepals and petals on a cup-shaped structure on the receptacle ; male flowers in long axillary racemes ; female flowers solitary in the axils of leaves . Fruit ellipsoid to cylindrical , 8-10-angled , dry and fibrous , green , turning yellow-brown when dry . Seeds 11-12 × 7-8 mm , black , ovoid . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 1) .
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Cucumis acutangulus L.
Cucurbita acutangula (L.) Blume
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Angled Luffa
Chinese Okra
Dish Cloth Gourd
Ridged Gourd
Sponge Gourd
Vegetable Gourd
Strainer Vine
Ribbed Loofah
Silky Gourd
Silk Gourd
Sinkwa Towelsponge
The pointed fruit are eaten by livestock. The fruit later dry out to empty husks, which can be seen for the rest of the year hanging incongruously from the dried stems of the parent plant in the trees and shrubs of the woodland. The inside of the fruit, once it has dried and the outer skin has been removed, looks like a small loofah, and was used in the same way, to scrub and rub clean and to scour cooking pots and so on. The fibrous material inside was also fashioned into a sort of strainer or sieve, which fixed over the pouring lip of a container to catch the flies, pieces of dirt, blades of grass and other debries which fell into the milk or water. This fibre was also used to strain out coffee grounds on the rare occasions when this expensive beverage was drunk. (Ref. Plants of
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*Ghazanfar, S. (2003). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.1: Piperaceae – Primulaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 90-72619-55-2 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *https://www.nparks.gov.sg *Miller, A., Morris, M. (1988). Plants of Dhofar, the Southern Region of Oman: Traditional, Economic, and Medicinal Uses. Published by Office of the Adviser for Conservation of the Environment, Diwan of Royal Court, Sultanate of Oman; ISBN 10: 0715708082 ISSN 13: 9780715708088. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
