Melothria scabra L.
Brand: Legutko
Packaged:0,05 g
Availability:In Stock
2.31€
Ex Tax: 1.90€
Mexican Sour Cucumber - Melothria scabra.
Recommended for growing on personal plots. Melotria is a non-spread vegetable culture of Cucurbitaceae family from Africa. This is a tiny kind of cucumber - small fruits (1,5-2,5 cm.) of light-green colour are cucumber-like by taste, the dense skin has nice sourish/acidulous taste.
Melotria is an annual grassy plant, which forms shoots up to 3 m long. Plant has triangle-pointed hairy leaves. Plants have bright-yellow flowers of both sexes: female flowers are situated on stem one by one, male flowers - several in each node. Melotria is good for gardens, plants have decorative branches, high growing ability. Melotria is a climber.

Melothria scabra

Melothria scabra
Mexican Sour Gherkin Cucumber.

* In addition to tasty fruits, Melothria scabra produces edible tubers weighing up to 400 g, reminiscent in size and shape of sweet potato tubers. They can also be eaten, for example, to make a salad. The liana is also used as decorative landscaping; with its help you can grow an elegant green screen. The agricultural technology of melotria is similar to the agricultural technology of cucumber.

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