Ivy Gourd

I would like to be connected with anyone who is willing to sell, trade, or give me cutting of this plant. I have been trying to find cut...Read Moretings for over a year. I ordered seeds on Ebay more than once, but so far, I have not been successful in growing this remarkable plant.

Does ANYONE within the United States have seeds, or preferably some cuttings that they would be willing to sell? I am getting a plant bus...Read Moreiness started, and am concentrating on edible/fruit/vegetable plants. If it's invasive in your backyard in Florida, even better. I'll buy your weed!
I really would like to try this fruit, and am in Florida right now, but can't even find it growing wild in a park.
DID find plenty of Dioscorea bulbifera, however. And kudzu.
I'm not willing to risk buying online to a store outside of the United States, lest US Customs confiscates my plant.
ANY help is appreciated!

NOTE: I found a large vine growing on a fence in Miami (Homestead, actually) Brought back over a dozen fruits. They are past being edible, but full of good seeds, and I brought back about a dozen cuttings. Hope they will root uip here- I know I'll have to keep them inside over the winter

I'm interested in trying this plant since it's supposedly a perennial. I doubt it would become invasive in my area due to freezing weathe...Read Morer. Does anyone know if it comes back after a winter dieback?

The Ivy Gourd was brought to this country from the old world as a medicinal and food plant. It has escaped cultivation in Brevard and Da...Read Morede Counties, Florida.

The flowers are dioecious (individual flowers are either male or female, but only one sex is to be found on any one plant so both male and female plants must be grown if fruit is required). The plant is not self-fertile, so requires insects to be fertilized. The male flowers provide the pollen, but do NOT have parts to provide fruit. This requires the female flower.

The flowers are white with 5 petals.This plant is very easy to grow from any method OTHER than seed. Difficult to grow from seed.Cuttings...Read More grow roots very easily.This plant can be invasive.The young leaves are good to eat as a pot herb cooked similar to turnip greens.This plant is EXTREMELY popular in INDIA. Regardless what you may hear or read about the FRUITS of this plant,BOTH the red ripe fruits and the green unripe fruits are good to eat raw or cooked. The green fruits make a great ingredient in stir fry,and remain crunchy.Other common names for it are...ivy gourd-dondakai-tindla-parval-thainli-kovakkai.

also known as "scarlet-fruited gourd" it is a pest plant in Hawaii, an aggressive weedy vine from Africa, Asia, Australia. It has tendri...Read Morels, ivy-like leaves, white bell shaped flowers and red fruit 1-1/2" long. There's some that grows behind my property and I have to remove it periodically from my fence to hinder its spread. I'll find it sprouting here and there and have to get main root to keep it from growing back.