Product Description

Snake Gourd
Categories: Root, Pharmaceutical
Application: Pharmaceutical
Function: Regulatory, Nourishment
Snake gourd is really a quick developing vine that, a long time before being grown, was ingested by the residents of the regions exactly where it grew untamed. Today its a relatively well-known veggie utilized in numerous standard recipes. They are often simple to find in Asian grocery shops while in season. It is really an annual climber with increased or even much less palmate, 2 or 3 lobed or even somewhat wavy leaflets along with serrated edges. Its flowers have got lengthy fringes on the petals, and although male flowers usually are carried in cluster, female flowers are individual. The bear delicious, strangely shaped fruit that appear to be just like coiled up snakes. Theyre plain green or even grey-green becoming orange or red whenever ripe. Their rind is thin and also the flesh thick as well as juicy. Just like cucumbers, they include several little, flat, ovoid, as well as soft seeds that, once the fruit is ripe, turn out to be big and hard. Theyve got a fragile, fairly sweet flavor.