page_title: Citrullus colocynthis
section_title: Flowers
hierarchical_section_title: Citrullus colocynthis / Characteristics and morphology / Flowers
caption_attribution_description: English: Citrullus colocynthis, Cucurbitaceae, Colocynth, Bitter Apple, Bitter Cucumber, Egusi, Vine of Sodom, flower; Botanical Garden KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany. The ripe, hulled, seeded fruits are used in homeopathy as remedy: Colocynthis (Coloc.) Deutsch: Citrullus colocynthis, Cucurbitaceae, Koloquinte, Blüte; Botanischer Garten KIT, Karlsruhe, Deutschland. Die reifen, geschälten, entkernten Früchte werden in der Homöopathie als Arzneimittel verwendet: Colocynthis (Coloc.)
context_page_description: Citrullus colocynthis, with many common names including colocynth, bitter apple, bitter cucumber, desert gourd, egusi, vine of Sodom, or wild gourd, is a desert viny plant native to the Mediterranean Basin and Asia, especially Turkey, and Nubia.
  It resembles a common watermelon vine, but bears small, hard fruits with a bitter pulp. It originally bore the scientific name Colocynthis citrullus.
context_section_description: The flowers are yellow and solitary in the axes of leaves and are borne by yellow-greenish peduncles. Each has a subcampanulated five-lobed corolla and a five-parted calyx. They are monoecious, so the male (stamens) and the female reproductive parts (pistils and ovary) are borne in different flowers on the same plant.
  The male flowers’ calyx is shorter than the corolla. They have five stamens, four of which are coupled and one is single with monadelphous anther. The female flowers have three staminoids and a three-carpel ovary. The two sexes are distinguishable by observing the globular and hairy inferior ovary of the female flowers.
caption: A C. colocynthis female flower
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