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Hodgsonia
Hodgsonia heteroclita fruit
Hodgsonia heteroclita fruit
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Cucurbitales
Family: Cucurbitaceae
Subfamily: Cucurbitoideae
Tribe: Trichosantheae
Subtribe: Hodgsoniinae
C. Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group Magnoliopsida is the Botanical name for a class of Flowering plants By definition the class will include the family Magnoliaceae, but its The Cucurbitales are an order of Flowering plants included in the Rosid group of Dicotyledons This order mostly belongs to tropical areas with limited Cucurbitaceae is a Plant family commonly known as Melons, gourds or cucurbits and includes crops like Cucumbers Jeffrey 1962
Genus: Hodgsonia
Hook.f. & Thomson 1853
Species

Hodgsonia heteroclita
Hodgsonia macrocarpa

Hodgsonia is a small genus of fruit-bearing vines in the family Cucurbitaceae. Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, OM, GCSI, MD, FRS (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911 was an English Botanist and Explorer Thomas Thomson (1817-1878 was a Chemistry professor and Surgeon with the British East India Company before becoming a Botanist. Cucurbitaceae is a Plant family commonly known as Melons, gourds or cucurbits and includes crops like Cucumbers

Hodgsonia was named for Brian Houghton Hodgson in 1853 by British botanists Joseph Dalton Hooker and Thomas Thomson, who examined the plant under Hodgson's hospitality in the Himalaya. Brian Houghton Hodgson ( February 1, 1800 – May 23, 1894) was an early naturalist and Ethnologist working in British Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, OM, GCSI, MD, FRS (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911 was an English Botanist and Explorer Thomas Thomson (1817-1878 was a Chemistry professor and Surgeon with the British East India Company before becoming a Botanist.

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Classification

Physical characteristics

H. heteroclita H. macrocarpa
Leaf lobes Usually 5 Usually 3

Uses

Food

Although the flesh of Hodgsonia fruit is inedible and considered worthless, the large, oil-rich seeds are an important source of food. The kernels are occasionally eaten raw;[2] they are slightly bitter, possibly due to an unidentified alkaloid or glucoside, but "perfectly safe" to eat. This article is about the chemical compounds alkaloids For the Pharmaceutical company in the Republic of Macedonia see Alkaloid (company. A glucoside is a Glycoside that is derived from Glucose. Glucosides are common in plants but rare in animals [3] More commonly, the seeds are roasted, after which they taste like pork scraps or lard; many mountain peoples consider these roasted seeds a delicacy. Pork' is the Culinary name for Meat from the domestic Pig ( Sus scrofa) often specifically the fresh meat but can be used as an all-inclusive Lard is pig Fat in both its rendered and unrendered forms Lard was commonly used in many cuisines as a Cooking fat or Shortening In addition to eating the seeds alone, the Naga incorporate them into various types of curry. The Naga people of more than four million are found in Nagaland, parts of Manipur, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh in North-East India Curry is the English description of any of a general variety of spicy dishes best known in Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan [4]

Medicine

The medicinal importance of Hodgsonia is mostly in its leaves. In Malaya, native physicians report several uses for the nose. The leaves may be dried and burnt, and the smoke inhaled, or the juice of young stems and leaves is squeezed into the nostrils to allay irritation from small insects. The leaves are also boiled and the resulting liquid taken internally, both for nose complaints and to reduce fevers. [5] The ashes from burnt leaves of H. macrocarpa are also used to heal wounds. [6]

In Nagaland, the fruit bulb is applied to bacterial infections in the feet. [4] In Sarawak, Hodgsonia oil is used to anoint the bodies of mothers after childbirth; it also forms the base of embrocations carrying ashes from the leaves of coconut palm and Kaempferia. To anoint is to pour or smear with perfumed oil milk water melted butter or other substances a process employed ritually by many religions and races Childbirth (also called labour, birth, partus or parturition) is the culmination of a Human Pregnancy or The Coconut Palm ( Cocos nucifera) is a member of the Family Arecaceae (palm family [7] The oil is also used as a base for medicines in Eastern India. [8]

History

Vernacular names

Hodgsonia heteroclita male plant
Hodgsonia heteroclita male plant

Some of these names are ambiguous. Early history The ancient Hindu Buddhists Malay Kingdom of Nakhon Pathom influenced in the area before the arrival of the first Thai The Malay Peninsula or Thai-Malay Peninsula (Semenanjung Tanah Melayu (คาบสมุทรมลายู is a major Peninsula located in Southeast Java (Jawa is an Island of Indonesia and the site of its Capital city Jakarta. Sumatra (also spelled Sumatera) is the sixth largest island in the world (approximately 470000 km² and is the largest island entirely in Indonesia (two English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States Dutch ( is a West Germanic language spoken by around 24 million people 22 million of which are from the Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname "Kepayang" might mean Pangium edule, the "football fruit" tree whose aril is edible but whose large seeds are so laden with hydrocyanic acid that they are used as a powerful arrow poison. Distinguish from Aryl, which is a type of organic chemical radical Hydrogen cyanide is a Chemical compound with Chemical formula HCN An arrow is a pointed Projectile that is shot with a bow. It predates recorded history and is common to most Cultures. In the context of Biology, poisons are substances that can cause damage, Illness, or Death to Organisms usually by (The seeds can be prepared for human consumption; they are boiled and steeped in water, not roasted. )[16] "Kadam" can also mean Anthocephalus cadamba, a tree with much smaller fruit and minute seeds. Neolamarckia cadamba, commonly called Kadam is an Evergreen, tropical tree native to South and Southeast Asia. [17]

References

Hodgsonia heteroclita female plant
Hodgsonia heteroclita female plant
  1. ^ Loewer p. 175
  2. ^ Arora and Hardas p. 560
  3. ^ Hu 1964 p. 170
  4. ^ a b c Changkija p. 219
  5. ^ Hu 1964 p. 167, 171
  6. ^ De Wilde & Duyfjes p. 175
  7. ^ Hu 1964 p. 171
  8. ^ Agarwal p. 273
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Hu 1964 p. 170
  10. ^ Hooker p. 16
  11. ^ Arora and Hardas p. 559
  12. ^ Hu 2005 p. 703
  13. ^ Chowdhury p. 94
  14. ^ USDA p. 2-304
  15. ^ PLANTS Profile for Hodgsonia heteroclita (Chinese lardplant) | USDA PLANTS
  16. ^ See, for example, [1][2][3][4][5].
  17. ^ See, for example, [6][7][8].

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