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Names Of Wildflowers
... -scented, trailing vine that is common along desert washes and roadsides in late summer and fall. It is also called Coyote Melon, presumably because coyotes eat the seeds and pulp when they are hungry. [The seeds commonly appear in coyote scat when the gourds are plentiful.] The common shrub of the high desert, "yerba santa" (Eriodictyon trichocalyx), had ...
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The World of Gourds
... 1. Teasel Gourd (Cucumis dipsaceus); 2. Ornamental Gourds (Cucurbita pepo); 3. Summer Crookneck (Cucurbita pepo); 4. Wild Cucumber (Marah macrocarpus); 5. Horned Cucumber (Cucumis metuliferus); 6. Coyote Melon (Cucurbita foetidissima); 7. Vegetable Sponge (Luffa acutangula); and 8. White Bush Scallop (Cucurbita pepo). The World's Largest Fruit The Gourd Family (Cucurbitaceae) includes hundreds of ...
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Genus of the Week
... California Natural History web pages from Loyola Merrymount University contain some nice photos of C. foetidissima, also known as Coyote Melon, Wild Pumpkin, and of course, Stinking Gourd. Visit the Center for Plant Conservation's web version of the National Collection of Endangered Plants for information about the Okeechobee Gourd C. Okeechobeensis,an endangered species ...
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The Tucson Cactus and Succulent Society
... **A LAST FEW SUCCULENTS (really stretching the definition of a succulent!) CRASSULACEAE Crassula connate (=Tillaea erecta) Pygmy Weed (tiny winter/spring ephemeral) CUCURBITACEAE Cucurbita digitata Coyote Melon (tubeous perennial vine) Tumamoca macdougalii Tumamoc Globeberry (tuberous perennial vine) FABACEAE Hoffmeisteria glacuca Hog Potato (forms succulent (?) tubers) PORTULACACEAE Calindrinia ...
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Index of Common Names: M - Plants For A Future database report
... Mu Club Moss Cluster Mountain Mint Common Club Moss Common Madia Common Marestail Common Milkweed Common Moonwort Common Morning Glory Common Mouse-Ear Chickweed Corn Marigold Corn Mint Corsican Mint Coyote Mint Crepe Myrtle Curled Mustard Dark Mullein Desert Milkweed Dog's Mercury Downy Manzanita Drooping Mistletoe Dwarf Mallow Dwarf Mallow Dwarf Marsh Violet Dwarf Mentzelia Dwarf Milkweed Dwarf ...
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