Bitter gourd is an annual climbing herb with many branches. Its stem and branches are pilose. Its fruit is fusiform or cylindrical and is covered with wrinkles and many hard lumps. When it is ripe, it is orange in color.

Bitter gourd color

:Bitter gourd has a light green or greenish-white color in appearance.

Bitter Gourd Leaf Characteristics

:Bitter gourd petiole is slender, white pilose, abaxial surface is glabrous, leaves are ovoid-reniform or suborbicular, membranous, dark green on the top, light green on the abaxial surface, y lobed, lobes are ovoid with lobules on the margins, obtuse at the apex and semiorbicular at the base.

Bitter gourd seeds look:

Bitter gourd seeds are mostly oblong, with pseudo-seed coat on the surface and engraved on both sides.

Bitter melon plant properties

Bitter melon, bitter melon alias, for the Cucurbitaceae bitter melon plants, native to East India, mainly cultivated in the tropical to temperate regions, China's north and south are cultivated. According to the color of the bitter melon, divided into green skin bitter melon and white skin bitter melon two kinds. Green skin bitter melon bitter flavor is stronger, the southern planting more, while the white skin bitter melon bitter flavor is lighter, the north is widely planted.

Describing Bitter Melon Sentences

Behind my grandmother there is a small backyard house where fresh vegetables are grown. I enjoyed playing there very much. I always had the freshest bitter gourds, tomatoes, and ladybugs flying up to the bitter gourd blossoms all at once and laying on them enjoying the sunshine in peace.

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