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  • #1

    Caveman's Club

    Evening to you all,

    Mother-in-law has sent me a packet of seeds from France called "Coloquinte" or Caveman's Club. I have tried to search the RHS but have found nothing that lets me know if they are edible, or if they are gords.
    Mother-in-law thinks they are a type of pepper?

    Any help would be gratefull
    Thanks
    dd
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  • #2
    Peppers seeds are like tomatoe seeds and gourd seeds are like cucurbit seeds i.e big oval and flat!
    My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
    to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

    Diversify & prosper


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    • #3
      coloquinte - Google Image Search

      google can be your friend!!!

      Description

      It is a herbaceous, annual or long-lived crawling plant, with angular and hard stems. The sheets, alternate, long from 5 to 10 cm, have a limb cut out into 5 to 7 lobes separated by broad sines, the central lobe is sometimes oval. The flowers monoïques, solitary, appear the summer with the armpit of the sheets. The yellow corolla of color comprises five lobes.

      The spherical Fruit from 5 to 10 cm in diameter (of the size of a small orange), resembling small a Water melon, of green color shandy of clear yellow, becomes completely yellow with maturity. The flesh light, spongy, of yellow color orange, is very bitter and toxic. The many ovoid and flattened seeds, of color varying from orange to brown the noirâtre, are edible.

      The substances giving bitter savor are the Colocynthine and the Colocynthétine.

      There exists a certain confusion between this species and the Pastèque, whose seeds are used in the same way and who formerly bore the scientific name of Colocynthis citrullus .
      Last edited by zazen999; 11-02-2009, 08:59 AM.

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      • #4
        dd, if you do a general Google search on Coloquinte Caveman's Club you'll get 35 references, all in French but some with translation facilities. As far as I can see they're listed as "decorative" which suggests gourds. b.
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        • #5
          "Snap!" zz! Google is just phe-nom-en-al, isn't it... b.
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          • #6
            Yup...it's my first port of call for almost everything these days.

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            • #7
              How did we exist without it?
              Mad Old Bat With Attitude.

              I tried jogging, but I couldn't keep the ice in my glass.

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              • #8
                ...and why don't people use it?
                All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                • #9
                  And here was me looking at the thread list and wondering a) who Caveman was and b) why he had formed a club

                  I really shouldn't surf the interwebz so early in the morning...
                  Last edited by Eyren; 11-02-2009, 07:35 AM.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Eyren View Post
                    And here was me looking at the thread list and wondering a) who Caveman was and b) why he had formed a club
                    me too- although I'm often confused as a Cave- goddess!)
                    "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

                    Location....Normandy France

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                    • #11
                      I dont use Google cos I'm toooo stoooopid. I want to type in a question and get an answer, Google gives me far too much rubbish.
                      I am sadly a bear of very little brain.
                      I do however know that the Caveman Club is a gourd, not really edible, although I spose you could if you wanted to.
                      Bob Leponge
                      Life's disappointments are so much harder to take if you don't know any swear words.

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                      • #12
                        I assumed someone was starting a new Social Group for big butch blokes! (I wanted to know why us Big Butch Lasses couldn't join!)
                        Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

                        www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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                        • #13
                          Many thanks to you all for all the useful advice as always.

                          dd

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