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Native to Atlantic Brazil. Lotusland, Montecito, California.
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Mulu Airport, Sarawak, Malaysia
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Orinda, California, United States
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Lone Creek Falls, Sabie, Mpumalanga, SOUTH AFRICA
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Reported distribution depends on which name is used. Photo from El Dorado Reserve, northeastern Colombia.
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Cayenne, French Guiana
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Flowers of the Starleaf Begonia vary from white to pink. The species is widespread in the northern Neotropics, here in the Sierra Maihuatlan of Mexico.
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Barberton, Mpumalanga, South Africa
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The African horned cucumber (Cucumis metuliferus, Cucurbitaceae) is also known as "Kiwano" in New Zealand. In Africa it grows as a weed in arable fields and it is often eaten raw, sometimes with a pinch of salt.
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A local variety of bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria, family Cucurbitaceae). This is a variety from northern Mozambique with early maturity and good palatability. Not used to make household utensils, but as food, especially important as one of the earliest foods produced in the "hungry gap".
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Lower Sabie, Mpumalanga, South Africa
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Native from Mexico to Bolivia and again in southern Chile and some Pacific Islands. Photo from the mountains east of Quito, where it is known as Shanshi.
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Chimur, Maharashtra, India
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Male flower of Momordica balsamina (CUCURBITACEAE), traditional leafy vegetable in most parts of Mozambique. Bitter taste but very nutricious. Medicinal use of watery extract of leaves for malaria (prevention rather than cure) and other diseases.
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Pemba, Cabo Delgado, Moambique
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Brito, Rivas, Nicaragua
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Sarawak, Malaysia
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Orinda, California, United States