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Echinocystis fabacea (view source)
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Echinocystis fabacea, Naudin (Megarrhiza californica, Torr.), is sometimes grown in fine collections and botanic gardens. It is a tendril-cumber, reaching 20-30 ft. in its native haunts: lvs. deeply 5-7-lobed: fls. monoecious, greenish white, the corolla rotate: fr. densely spinose, globose or ovoid, 2 in. long; seed obovoid, nearly or about 1 in. long and half or more as broad, margined by a narrow groove or dark line. S. Calif.—Odd in germination (see Gray, Amer. Journ. Sci. 1877, and Structural Botany, p. 21). L. H. B.
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