Hairy Bitter Gourd, Momordica dioica,


Momordica dioica is a species of flowering plant in the Cucurbitaceae/gourd family. It is used as a vegetable in all regions of India and some parts in South Asia. It has commercial importance and is exported and used locally. The fruits are cooked with spices, or fried and sometimes eaten with meat or is propagated by underground tubers. It has small leaves, small yellow flowers, it has small, dark green, round or oval is dioecious, which means that it has distinct male and female individual organisms, hence its name.


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