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Sechium edule (Jacq.) Sw.
Family Cucurbitaceae
Common name: Choko

Sechium edule (Jacq.) Sw. APNI*

Description: Trailing or climbing herb with hairy stems to 6 m or more long from a massive fleshy root.

Leaves with lamina ± circular to ovate, 10–25 cm long and nearly as wide, base cordate, sparsely pubescent; petiole to 15 cm long.

Male racemes on peduncles to 4 cm long. Flowers 1.5–3.5 cm diam., creamy-green.

Fruit 10–18 cm long, 6–10 cm wide, green; seed c. 20 mm long; fruit ripe summer to autumn.


Distribution and occurrence: Commonly cultivated for its edible fruit, sometimes naturalized in warmer areas. Native of tropical America.
NSW subdivisions: *NC
AVH map***

Text by G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)


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