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Please help with id
« on: April 27, 2017, 11:57:31 AM »
ID of this fruit will be greatly appreciated.





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Re: Please help with id
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2017, 02:12:04 PM »
I am sorry.  I see the images didn't attach.






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Re: Please help with id
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2017, 03:52:03 PM »
I don't know that fruit but it looks like a passiflora to me.
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Re: Please help with id
« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2017, 06:13:32 PM »
My guess would be something in the cucurbit family.
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Re: Please help with id
« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2017, 07:12:18 PM »
How does it taste like?
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Re: Please help with id
« Reply #5 on: April 27, 2017, 08:04:00 PM »
It reminds me of an Asian gourd, especially the inside of the fruit and seeds...but I can't pin it down to which one...look's close to the Coccinia..maybe close to coccinia grandis (ivy gourd) but the leaves are off a bit.

Do you have a picture of the whole fruit?

Keeping your location in mind, South Africa, there is a local Coccinia...Coccinia sessilifolia...It might be the one!

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Re: Please help with id
« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2017, 12:33:50 AM »
leaves look like Momordica  of some kind, but not familiar with any that have elongated smooth fruit like that.
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Re: Please help with id
« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2017, 02:04:40 AM »
Some friend has sent me the pictures, I don't have it myself.  She hasn't tasted it, but said that it smells sweet.

It is definitely not Coccinia sessilifolia.  That plant grows where I live and I know how it should look like.

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« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2017, 02:35:23 AM »
I got another photo from my friend.  It is of the whole fruit.  It looks like Coccinia sessilifolia, but what I cannot understand, is that her fruit is shiny, whereas the fruit where I live is not shiny at all and sometimes even have a whitish color to it as if it is sprayed with something.