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Lollipop Climber
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Lollipop Climber
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Common name: Lollipop Climber, Marble Vine, native bryony, striped cucumber • Gujarati: શિવલિંગી shivalingi • Hindi: शिवलिंगी shivalingi • Kannada: ಲಿಂಗತೊಂಡೆ ಬಳ್ಳಿ lingatonde balli, ಶಿವಲಿಂಗಿ shivalingi • Konkani: ಕಾರ್ಟ karta • Malayalam: ഐവിരലിക്കോവ aiviralikkova, കരിങ്കായി karinkaayi, നെയ്യുണ്ണി neyyunni, വേലിച്ചെടി velichedi • Marathi: महादेवी mahadevi, शिवलिंगी shivalingi • Nepali: सावा sava, शिवलिंगी shivalingi • Sanskrit: आपस्तम्भिनी apashtambhini, चित्रफला chitraphala, लिङ्गजा lingaja, लिङ्गिनी lingini, शिववल्ली shivavalli • Tamil: ஐவிரலி aivirali • Telugu: లింగ దొండ lingadonda • Tulu: ಲಿಂಗತೊಂಡೆ lingatonde Source: Names of Plants in India
Botanical name: Diplocyclos palmatus    Family: Cucurbitaceae (Pumpkin family)
Synonyms: Bryonia palmata, Zehneria erythrocarpa, Bryonopsis laciniosa
Lollipop Climber is a perennial climber with hairless stem, becoming thickened and white dotted on the ridges when older. Leaves are broadly ovate, 3.5-14 x 4-14.5 cm, palmately lobed. Lobes are linear-lanceshaped to elliptic, hairless. Leaf stalk os 1.5-9.0 cm long. Flowers are small, white or yellowish, male in stalkless clusters of 2-8, along with 5 female flowers in the same axil. Sepal cup is 3-4 mm long in male, 1.5-2.5 mm long in female, sepals smaller than tube. Flower of male larger than female. Fruit is solitary, or in clusters of 2-5. It is ovoid-round, 1.5-2.5 cm. When ripe, it is red with longitudinal white stripes, and reminds one of lollipop, hence the common name. It is found in India, including the Himalayas, at altitudes of 200-1500 m. Flowering: August-October.
Identification credit: Chandrashekhar Marathe Photographed in Madhya Pradesh & Maharashtra.
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