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Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Coccinia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Coccinia (Latin, scarlet; referring to the ornamental gourds). Cucurbitaceae. Tender perennial vines, usually with tuberous roots, grown for ornament mostly indoors. Leaves angled or lobed, sometimes glandular: fls. white or yellowish, large, staminate and pistillate on different plants or sometimes on different branches of the same plant; calyx short, often campanulate: fr. a small, scarlet gourd, sometimes marbled, with an insipid pulp.—-Twenty species from the tropics of Asia and Afr. A. Cogniaux in DC., Mon. Phan. 3:528. C. cordifolia is treated as a tender annual, requiring an early start and no special cult. The genus is sometimes referred to Cephalandra. C. Dinteri, Andre, with palmate Lvs. and handsome scarlet frs, may be in cult. S Afr. R.H. 1900:268. Wilhelm Miller. N. Taylor. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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 Leaves angled or lobed, sometimes glandular: fls. white or yellowish, large, staminate and pistillate on different plants or sometimes on different branches of the same plant; calyx short, often campanulate: fr. a small, scarlet gourd, sometimes marbled, with an insipid pulp.—-Twenty species from the tropics of Asia and Afr. A. Cogniaux in DC., Mon. Phan. 3:528. C. cordifolia is treated as a tender annual, requiring an early start and no special cult. The genus is sometimes referred to Cephalandra.
+C. Dinteri, Andre, with palmate Lvs. and handsome scarlet frs, may be in cult. S Afr. R.H. 1900:268. Wilhelm Miller. N. Taylor.
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