Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Cucumis_myriocarpus> ?p ?o }
Showing triples 1 to 79 of
79
with 100 triples per page.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus abstract "Cucumis myriocarpus, the gooseberry cucumber, gooseberry gourd, paddy melon or prickly paddy melon is a prostrate or climbing annual herb native to tropical and southern Africa. It has small, round, yellow-green or green-striped fruit with soft spines, small yellow flowers and deeply lobed, light green leaves. The melon occurs in disturbed soil and cleared or bare areas, and thrives on summer moisture.The fruit and foliage are toxic due to the presence of cucurbitacin. The plant is potentially toxic to horses, sheep, cattle and pigs and has been associated with stock deaths. It has been used by humans as an emetic. There are records of poisoning occurring in humans.The melon is a weed in Australia and in California, where it may also be known as prickly paddy melon, bitter apple, gooseberry gourd and gooseberry cucumber.Cucumis myriocarpus (paddy melon) is often confused with Citrullus lanatus (the Afghan or camel melon) in Australia, where both species are introduced. Cucumis myriocarpus has many small fruit, hidden under the leaves. The fruit are smaller than a golf ball and green in colour, developing to yellow on maturity. The larger melons commonly seen on roadsides in rural Australia are in fact Citrullus lanatus, a wild relative of the watermelon. The confusion is widespread in Australia, such that in common parlance, the term \"paddy melon\" is understood to mean the larger green/yellow fruit of the Citrullus lanatus. Children in rural Australia often use the fruit of this plant as an opportunistic source of entertainment, for example by throwing it at each other's feet.Paddy and Afghan melons (collectively referred to as wild melons) sometimes occur in mixed infestations in Australia. They vary only slightly in colour and appearance, with the Citrullus lanatus leaves slightly more variegated than those of Cucumis myriocarpus. Fruit size is the clearest identifying factor. However, management of all wild melons is similar, apart from some variation in sensitivity to glyphosate. Mechanical removal of small infestations is the simplest control method, and cultivation at early stages of growth can be effective. Large infestations are sometimes controlled by the spray-graze method, in which plants are sprayed with a sublethal dose of hormone herbicide to make them more palatable to stock, and the area is heavily grazed three days later. Toxicity is managed by making other feed available.Both wild melon species have a similar unpleasant odor when broken or disturbed. This makes them less palatable to stock, so poisoning tends only to occur when little other feed is available.The plant occurs in Spain, where it is naturalized and known by the common names of habanera or sandía habanera.".
- Cucumis_myriocarpus class Eudicots.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus division Flowering_plant.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus family Cucurbitaceae.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus genus Cucumis.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus kingdom Plant.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus order Cucurbitales.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus order Rosids.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus thumbnail Paddy_melon_cucumis_myriocarpus.jpg?width=300.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageExternalLink 7370.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageExternalLink 7372.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageExternalLink get_JM_treatment.pl?3375,3382,3384.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageExternalLink fn091_1993.pdf.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageID "5947746".
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageLength "5780".
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageOutDegree "16".
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageRevisionID "705825108".
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageWikiLink Australia.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageWikiLink California.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Cucurbitaceae.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Invasive_plant_species.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Melons.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageWikiLink Citrullus_lanatus.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageWikiLink Cucumis.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageWikiLink Cucurbitaceae.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageWikiLink Cucurbitacin.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageWikiLink Cucurbitales.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageWikiLink Eudicots.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageWikiLink Flowering_plant.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageWikiLink Noxious_weed.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageWikiLink Plant.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageWikiLink Rosids.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageWikiLink Vomiting.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageWikiLinkText "Cucumis myriocarpus".
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageWikiLinkText "Paddy melon".
- Cucumis_myriocarpus binomial "Cucumis myriocarpus".
- Cucumis_myriocarpus binomialAuthority "E. Mey. ex Naud.".
- Cucumis_myriocarpus familia Cucurbitaceae.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus genus "Cucumis".
- Cucumis_myriocarpus name "Paddy melon".
- Cucumis_myriocarpus ordo Cucurbitales.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus regnum "Plantae".
- Cucumis_myriocarpus species "C. myriocarpus".
- Cucumis_myriocarpus unrankedClassis Eudicots.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus unrankedDivisio Flowering_plant.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus unrankedOrdo Rosids.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:About.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Citation_needed.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Commons_category.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Italic_title.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Melons.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Taxobox.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus subject Category:Cucurbitaceae.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus subject Category:Invasive_plant_species.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus subject Category:Melons.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus hypernym Prostrate.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus type Eukaryote.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus type Plant.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus type Species.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus type Melon.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus type Thing.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus type Q19088.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus type Q756.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus comment "Cucumis myriocarpus, the gooseberry cucumber, gooseberry gourd, paddy melon or prickly paddy melon is a prostrate or climbing annual herb native to tropical and southern Africa. It has small, round, yellow-green or green-striped fruit with soft spines, small yellow flowers and deeply lobed, light green leaves. The melon occurs in disturbed soil and cleared or bare areas, and thrives on summer moisture.The fruit and foliage are toxic due to the presence of cucurbitacin.".
- Cucumis_myriocarpus label "Cucumis myriocarpus".
- Cucumis_myriocarpus sameAs Q5192439.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus sameAs Wildekomkommer.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus sameAs Cucumis_myriocarpus.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus sameAs Cucumis_myriocarpus.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus sameAs m.0fg0v1.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus sameAs Krusbärsgurka.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus sameAs Cucumis_myriocarpus.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus sameAs Cucumis_myriocarpus.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus sameAs Q5192439.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus wasDerivedFrom Cucumis_myriocarpus?oldid=705825108.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus depiction Paddy_melon_cucumis_myriocarpus.jpg.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus isPrimaryTopicOf Cucumis_myriocarpus.
- Cucumis_myriocarpus name "Paddy melon".