The highest yielding hybrid bitter melon imported from Thailand This variety is early maturing, disease resistant, heat resistant, extremely cold resistant, simple to grow and easy to manage. The variety is a hybrid bitter melon variety developed by Thai seed companies for the region. Bitter melon Cucurbitaceae bitter melon plants, annual climbing tender herb, multi-branched. Stem, branches are pilose. Tendrils slender, not divergent.
Bitter gourd related introduction
Petiole slender, leaf blade membranous, green above, abaxial light green, leaf veins palmate. Monoecious. Male flower pedicels slender, puberulent, bracts green, slightly ciliate. Calyx lobes ovate-lanceolate, white pilose, corolla yellow, lobes pilose, stamens free. Female flower solitary, pedicel puberulent, ovary fusiform, stigma expanded.
Fruit fusiform or terete, much tuberculate and wrinkled, orange-yellow when ripe. Seeds oblong, incised on both sides. Flowers, fruiting from May to October. Bitter melon is native to East India and is widely cultivated in tropical to temperate regions of the world. It is widely cultivated in the tropical to temperate regions of the world. It is commonly cultivated in both north and south China. Bitter melon has a sweet and bitter fruit flavor, mainly used as a vegetable, but also can be candied, mature pulp and aril can also be eaten.
The fruit is fusiform or cylindrical, verrucose, 10 to 20 centimeters long, orange-yellow when ripe, and 3-valved from the tip. Seeds numerous, oblong, with red aril, 3 denticulate at each end, incised on both sides, 1.5 to 2 centimeters long, 1 to 1.5 centimeters wide.