Images and Information of Cucumis melo

BIBLIO (Ayurveda)

Title - A DICTIONARY OF THE ECONOMIC PRODUCTS OF INDIA VOL.I - 4
Author - GEORGE WATT
Title - GLOSSARY OF VEGETABLE DRUGS IN BRHTTRAYI
Author - THAKUR BALWANT SINGH & DR. K.C.CHUNEKAR
Title - INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS Vol 1 -4
Author - K.R. KIRTIKAR, B.D. BASU & AN I.C.S.
Title - INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS VOLUME .VOL 1-5
Author - WARRIER,P.K. et al (EDS.)
Title - THE AYURVEDIC FORMULARY OF INDIA PART 1. FIRST EDITION
Author - Ministry of Health & family Welfare

BIBLIO (Distribution)

Title - Flora of Madhya Pradesh Vol I

Distribution

Cultivated

Title - Flora of Madhya Pradesh Vol I

Author - D.M.Verma, N.P.Balakrishnan, R.D.Dixit

Title - The Flora of the Gulf of Mannar

Distribution

East & NE Trop.Africa and India._x000D_ TN: Almost all districts._x000D_ GoM: Frequent on mainland coast and Appa, Karaichalli, Kurusadai, Manoli, Manoliputti, Muyal, Nallathanni and Pumarichan islands. Sandy localities.

Title - The Flora of the Gulf of Mannar

Author - P. Daniel & P. Umamaheswari

Title - Flora of Himachal Pradesh Vol I

Distribution

INDIA: Throughout India, cultivated; HIMACHAL PRADESH: Kulu.

Title - Flora of Himachal Pradesh Vol I

Author - H.J.chowdhery & B.M.Wadhwa

Title - Flora of Maharashtra State (Dicotyledons) Volume 2

Distribution

Maharashtra: Common on hill slopes. Ahmednagar, Akola, Bombay, Chandrapur, Dhule, Nasik, Osmanabad, Pune, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Satara, Thane.

Title - Flora of Maharashtra State (Dicotyledons) Volume 2

Author - N.P.Singh, P.Lakshminarasimhan, S.Karthikeyan & P.V. Prasanna

Title - FLORA OF KARNATAKA VOL-1

Distribution

Paleotropics. Karnataka-Bangalore, Bellary, Dharwar, Hassan, Mysore, Shimoga

Title - FLORA OF KARNATAKA VOL-1

Author - C.J. SALDHANA.

Title - FLORA OF TRIPURA STATE VOL1

Distribution

var cultus Kurz. Cultivated in all the tropical regions of the world for its edible fruits.

Title - FLORA OF TRIPURA STATE VOL1

Author - D.B. DEB

Title - THE FLORA OF THE TAMILNADU CARNATIC-VOL I

Distribution

Widely cultivated; wild forms in E. & N.E. tropical Africa and in the Indian subcontinent

Title - THE FLORA OF THE TAMILNADU CARNATIC-VOL I

Author - K.M. MATTHEW

Botanical Name -

Cucumis melo L.

Full Botanical citation -

Cucumis melo L. Sp. Pl. ed. 1: 1011. 1753; H.L. Chakravarty, Fascicles of Flora of India, Fasicle II, Cucurbitaceae, BSI, Howrah, 32. 1982

Family -

CUCURBITACEAE

System(s) of Indian Medicine -

Ayurveda, Unani

Vernacular names -

Total 49 Vernacular names found in 8 languages.

English (2) - cantaloupe, rock melon

Hindi (7) - kachri, kakkri, kakri, khadbiyo, kharbiyo, kharbuja, tar-kakkri

Kannada (2) - budimekaayi, hallmekke balli

Malayalam (1) - kakkarikka

Marathi (3) - chibdin, kakadi, valuka

Sanskrit (24) -

Sanskrit Comments

bahukanda, brihatphala, chhardapanika, chirbhati, ervaru, ervaruh, gajacirbhata, hastidantaphala, hastiparni, irvaru, karkataksha, karkati, lomashakanda, lomashi, mutrala, mutraphala, pinasa, shantanu, sthula, toyaphala, trapushpa, urvaru, valungi, vyalapatra

Tamil (4) - kakkarikay, kakkarikkay, mulam palam, vellarikkay

Urdu (6) - maghz tukh kharbuza, maghz tukhm kharbuza, maghz-i-tukhm-i-kharbuza, tukhm kharbaza, tukhm kharbuza, tukhm kharbuza nim kofta