Nature: A green plant with soft stems and branches that grows in meadows, vegetable gardens, etc. It has round thin-coated fruits. The melon-like fruit inside the sheath is eaten when ripe. A small wild fruit plant that grows occasionally in bamboo cultivation. There are two main types of honeybees – large honeybees and small honeybees. The seed is covered with a thin coating like a large honeydew melon. When ripe, the seeds turn yellow and have a sweet taste.
Properties: Ripe fruit contains vitamin C and other nutritious properties. The tree also has medicinal properties.
Cooking: They are fried with other vegetables. This slightly oily and bitter vegetable is eaten in a dish of 101 vegetables eaten during Bohag Bihu.