Waxgourd
ಬೂದುಗುಂಬಳराख लौकीநீற்றுப்பூசணி
Benincasa hispida (Thunb.) Cogn.
- light
- —
- water
- Plenty
- tall
- —
- wide
- —
Cucurbitaceae
Formerly Benincasa cerifera, Benincasa sinensis, Benincasa vacua, Cucurbita alba, and 11 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Scrambling annual or subshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. & S. Malesia to SW. PacificKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Water
- Plenty: wet or constantly moistRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, height, spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (9)
- Chinese
- 冬瓜, 瓠子, 冬瓜子
- Simplified Chinese
- 冬瓜
- Hindi
- राख लौकी, भतुआ, सफेद कद्दू
- Tamil
- நீற்றுப்பூசணி
- Telugu
- బూడిద గుమ్మడి
- Kannada
- ಬೂದುಗುಂಬಳ
- Marathi
- कोहळे, कोहाळा, कोहळा
- Bangla
- চালকুমড়া
- Malayalam
- തടിയൻ കായ്, നെയ് കുമ്പളങ്ങ, കുമ്പളങ്ങ
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.