It has commercial importance and is exported and used locally. The fruits are cooked with spices,or fried and sometimes eaten with meat or fish.
in sanskrit it is called as karkotaki, karkoti. In tamil it is called as mezhuku-pakal, pazhu-pakal. In oriya it is called kankada. In assamese it is called bhat-kerela, in manipuri it is called karot and in bengali kakrul or ghi korola. In telugu it is called boda kakara and on the east coast of andhra it is called aa-kakara-kaya. In gujarati it is called kankoda and is cooked the same way karela is cooked. In sri lanka,it is known as thumba or thumba karavila in sinhalese. in marathi it is called kartole and in mizo as maitamtawk. In kannada it is called mada haagala kaayi . In chhattisgarhi it is called kheksi .
it is propagated by underground tubers. It has small leaves, small yellow flowers, it has small, dark green, round or oval fruits. It is dioecious, which means that it has distinct male and female individual organisms, hence its name.
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