Cucurbitaceae
A large order of succulent climbing plants, with solitary lateral tendrils. Flowers solitary, panicled, or in fascicles, monoecious or dioecious; corolla of five (rarely three or six) petals, sometimes fringed, with strongly-marked reticulated veins. Fruit fleshy, more or less succulent. Leaves alternate, petiolate, palmate or pedate, often cordate, succulent, rough. There are about seventy genera (including Bryonia, Cucumis, Cucurbita, and Trichosanthes) and about 470 species.