Melothria longituba
Creeping Cucumber
Melothria pendula
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- Botanical name
- Melothria pendula
- Also known as
- Creeping Cucumber, Creeping-Cucumber
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae
- Genus
- Melothria
- Reference
- World Flora Online
How to grow Creeping Cucumber
We have not written a growing guide for this species yet.
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Other names for this plant
These names have all been used for Melothria pendula but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.
Apodanthera gracilis
Bryonia convolvulifolia
Bryonia filiformis
Bryonia guadalupensis
Bryonia melothria
Cucumis glaber
Diclidostigma melothrioides
Melothria chlorocarpa
Melothria crassifolia
Melothria fluminensis
Melothria fluminensis var. hydrocotylifolia
Melothria fluminensis var. microphylla
Melothria fluminensis var. ovata
Melothria fluminensis var. triangularis
Melothria guadalupensis
Melothria nashii
Melothria nigra
Melothria pendula var. aspera
Melothria pendula var. chlorocarpa
Melothria pendula var. crassifolia
Melothria pendula var. microcarpa
Melothria pendula var. pendula
Melothria pervaga
Melothria repanda
Others in Melothria
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