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Cucumis hystrix is a wild annual climbing vine in the gourd family, found in scrub, forest edges and roadsides across South and Southeast Asia. It is grown mainly as a curiosity or for its spiny fruit, and it needs a warm, humid climate with a long frost-free season.
Cucumis hystrix is a monoecious annual climbing vine in the family Cucurbitaceae. The specific epithet (hystrix) is Neo-Latin for "porcupine".
Cucumis hystrix is native southeastern India and Bangladesh east to northern Vietnam and southern China. It grows in scrub jungles, forests edges, and along roadsides up to 5,905.5 feet (1,800.0 meters) in elevation.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cucumis hystrix by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
