The rhizome is thick, cylindrical and yellow. Stems are much branched, hairless, tendrils axillary and slender, with 2-5 cracks at the top.
Leaves alternate, suborbicular or heart-shaped, about 7-20 cm in length and width, usually 5-7 palmately lobed or midrified, rarely deeply lobed, or undivided but with coarse teeth of different sizes. Lobes oblong or oblong, elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, with sparse short hairs or hairless surfaces, sharp or short acuminate, sparse teeth or notched edges.
It is dioecious, and there are several male flowers on the upper part of the total pedicel, which are 10-20 cm long and are racemes, and a few are solitary. Bracts obovate or broadly ovoid, long 1.5-2 cm, with toothed edges. The container is tubular and about 3.5 cm long. Calyx lobes lanceolate, entire, about 65438 05 mm long, corolla lobes obovate, with thin lines at the top, 3 stamens, short and hairy filaments, and anthers close together; Female flowers are solitary, ovary ovate, style 3-lobed.
The fruit is nearly spherical, orange-red and smooth when ripe; Seeds numerous, flat.
Extended data:
There are many kinds of hanging melons, which can be divided into two categories according to their use value, namely edible hanging melons and medicinal hanging melons.
Edible hanging melon: mainly take its mature seeds, mainly fried food, its seeds are full, fleshy, rich in fat and protein, which is a good product among edible melon seeds and has health care function;
Medicinal Cucumber: Take its mature seeds, which can also be used as fried food, but the quality is poor. It mainly takes the fresh fruit it grows and bakes it to make traditional Chinese medicine raw materials. It is often used to treat phlegm-heat cough, chest distress and pain, angina pectoris and other diseases. Trichosanthes root is a traditional Chinese medicine for inducing labor in gynecology, and can also be used to treat hepatitis, diabetes and other diseases.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Guagua