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wax gourd

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Any assistance will be highly appreciated.Johnson Wambua, KibweziAsh gourd is also known as winter melon or wax gourd and it is a popular vegetable in India.
China amazes and goads you to think at the same time S LICED pig ear with ginger in sake, duck blood curd and vermicelli in soup, steamed bullfrog in spicy sauce, fish, ribs and turnip soup, wax gourd pork stomach soup.
White gourd (Benincasa hispida Thunb; syn ash gourd, wax gourd, white pumpkin) is an important vegetable mainly valued for its long storage life and having a good scope for value addition.
Peter Matthews identified exocarp fragments and seeds of a gourd collected from the fill of a ditch to be wax gourd (Benincasa hispida).
The identification of these gourd fragments is now less certain, given that it was made without the benefit of seeds, on which the identification by Matthews of the Kana specimen as wax gourd (Benincasa hispida) is based (I.
The chayote (Sechium edule), bitter gourd (Momordica charantia), wax gourd (Benincasa hispida), and six-foot-long serpent gourd (Trichosanthes cucumerina) are a few examples of those grown for their edible flesh and seeds.
Wants: astragalus, chironja, creosote bush, bay tree, echinacea, Japanese Melon, edible flowers, pigeon pea, tree tomato, floradel tomato, wax gourd, velvet bean
e) The marginate seeds from Kana could be identified with a high degree of confidence as Benincasa hispida (wax gourd).
Most items for which prices are collected by the NIS are similar to those collected by the CDRI, with the exception of wax gourds. (6) The items from the NIS CPI data used to construct a Phnom Penh Basic CPI are shown in Appendix 2.
A mass of charred and mangled metal was surrounded by hundreds of large blackened wax gourds that had been piled on the cargo truck.
Food served at the religious rite included home-canned bamboo shoots eaten with chili and shrimp paste, wax gourds, chicken curry, sticky rice, water, and ice.