Kowakka

• Common Name In Sri Lanka:

  Kowakka

• Scientific Name:

  Coccinia grandis (l.) j. voigt

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  vary

• Identification

  Plant is perennial and dioecious. Stems are slender. Leaves are petiolate, and lamina is about 3—10.5 x 3—10 cm in size. Leaf is veryvaried in shape or outline butgenerally broadly ovate-cordate, shallowly to deeplypalmately 3—5-lobed. Flowers are solitary or more rarely in pairs. Flowers are white. Fruit is 8 cm long, oblong- ovoid and fleshy.There are numerous seeds.

• Habitat

  Woodland and forest borders and clearings, sea level to 800metres or more.

• Special Notes

  Fruit and leaves- edible, Medicinal.