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Flower and leaves
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Close-up of leaf (palmate, deeply lobed)
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Ripe Fruit with seeds
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Unripe Fruit
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Land
Management Program at Archbold Biological Station
P.O. Box 2057, Lake Placid, FL 33862
Phone 863-465-2571 FAX 863-699-1927
E-mail: landmanager@archbold-station.org
Wild Balsam Apple (Momordica charantia)
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Flower and leaves
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Close-up of leaf (palmate, deeply lobed)
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Ripe Fruit with seeds
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Unripe Fruit
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Leaves, tendrils, and flowers
Wild balsam apple creeping along a fence line along the eastern boundary of Burn
Unit 13A (NW Tract). Following the treatment of flame vine along the
fence, wild balsam apple was the dominant plant that returned covering ca. 75%
of the fence.
Photo Credits: Jeff Hutchinson
• Hutchinson, J.T.,
April 2003.
© Archbold Biological Station, 2003 April.
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