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Small yellow flowers grow into firm, spiked fruits about the size of a golf ball which then split open to reveal sticky, red, fleshy seeds. Newly hatched milkweed assassin bugs can be seen on the ripe fruit; not much of an odor from the fruit, perhaps they find the color enticing.
Very neat looking vine growing at the base of a citrus tree.
The closest match I have found is Momordica charantia, but this variety look a bit different to me. What do you pros think?
Spotted on Oct 11, 2012
Submitted on Oct 12, 2012
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Assassin bugs prey on other insects so not the fruit that attracts them, but the insects that are drawn to the fruit.