..you know "maori-gherkins"?..

..i have to plant crops of my maori gherkins..
this is the rest of them
i´m proud it has worked!..from my own garden..

hugs to all

Beautiful picture! I love the center beads

I just had to see what a Maori gherkin was. Never heard of such a thing! However gherkin in maori is kamoriki.

What are those things anyway, they look like a seed pod or large flower bud??

I love the dark toffee coloured glass beads

I don't know maori gherkins, but you have some nice beads there!

Very rich and exotic !

Beautiful.

The gherkins look so very interesting, now I need to know more about them
Do you have their botanical name? How do they taste?

They make a lovely bead display for your stunning bracelet.

Hum i didn't know gherkins.

Your picture is beautifull !

What an odd looking vegetable! But what a very beautiful bracelet...

Best in show. I do not hear of this gherkins ether I did grow tomato and chillis this year in my pots. The bracelet is lovly also

thank's for your lovely words!.. it makes me happy!
it's hart to explane this in english, what exactly it is ..(my bad english is not enough :-(..)

i have get little tiny things...look like wood-pieces..from my neighbour..,
who i put into a little bit of earth..and then they grow about two meters in high..

it's not a normal taste of gherkins (is this the right name for "gurken"?..hope so)..

they smells very good, when they are small ones..

hugs to all

I wonder if the maori ghurkins name is just something your neighbour called them, i cannot find any mention of them on google.

Planting them from a woody root makes me wonder if they are a kind of taro? But you eat the root of those

Taro <- link

Aha! I think i found them, they are tindori which is an indian vegetable. They look a bit like cucumbers inside. I've never seen them here in nz, but now i am curious to find some to try and grow

i've also nothing found by google..

Clochard wrote:i've also nothing found by google..

Tindori or tindora, ivy gourd or the latin, Coccinia grandis

In colder climates they lift the roots to plant out in spring because they are frost tender. Young fruits eaten because older ones become more bitter, they turn a red colour. Does this sound like yours?

frost tender??.. i don't know!

but eaten the small ones-is better..that's right!!

and become red colours?.. i don't know, 'couse i pic them up as small-young ones...sorry, that i can't help you more!

Try an image search for Coccinia grandis on google, you will see the flowers and plant images

Congratulations - harvest time is such a wonderful time of year! And the beads are very lovely, too

I've never heard of gherkins, but your picture is lovely and the bracelet TDF, such warm colours!

The MOST gorgeous photograph of the MOST brilliant bracelet.

what a compliment!!WOW..that's great!
hugs

The more common translation for 'Gurke' is usually 'cucumber', a gherkin is the pickled variety I think...
I've never heard the name 'Maori-Gurke' before, Clochard, is it this one?
I know it as 'Tindola'
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccinia_grandis
Oh and of course love your beads, especially the eye bead!!!

this one from wikipedia has different leafes!.. it's not the same as i have!
and the thing you can eat (gurke).. is not red!..
inside and outside it is green..

whatever..maybe we will never found out the right name..

whatever it is, your bracelet is beautiful! that's for sure!

thank you catsworld!..i'm happy, you like it!