Ivy gourd
ತೊಂಡೆकुंदुरीகோவை
Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 3.0 m
- wide
- —
Cucurbitaceae
Formerly Bryonia acerifolia, Bryonia alceifolia, Bryonia barbata, Bryonia grandis, and 18 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
- Climbing tuberous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. Africa, W. Arabian Pen., Trop. & Subtrop. AsiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 3.0 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -12.2 °C (USDA zone 8a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (9)
- Chinese
- 紅瓜, 红瓜
- Simplified Chinese
- 红瓜
- Hindi
- कुंदुरी
- Tamil
- கோவை, கொவ்வை
- Telugu
- దొండ కాయ
- Kannada
- ತೊಂಡೆ
- Marathi
- तोंडले
- Bangla
- কুচিলা, তেলাকুচা
- Malayalam
- കോവൽ
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Coccinia grandis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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.