Can anyone identify this?

[JJSH]

Mum & Dad returned from a holiday in the Ukraine with some packets of seeds for me (bless 'em!). I know what two of them are (raddish, both black ball ones and larger white ones that look a bit like smooth turnips), but am stumped with the ones in the packet shown. I can't google the name as the script is different.

Sorry for the poor quality of the photo ~ my phone doesn't do macro shots very well, but can anyone tell me what it is?

[sarraceniac]

My limited knowledge of the Cyrillic (Russian) alphabet tells me this is a Momordica or bitter melon. If you Google that word you will find some photos and a Wikipedia description. What variety your's is I don't know. But interesting.

[Nicos]

This is the name ..

МОМОРДИКА

You may be able to copy and paste it and see what the search engines come up with- if try to translate it, it goes into French and then gets all silly changing it back into English

If you want to work out other words, this is where I managed to find the type face...
http://lingresua.tripod.com/cgi-bin/oluaen.pl...the keyboard is on there.

Fingers crossed someone knows what it is!!!( looks very interesting!)

[mrscorpio]

hi
try googling this momordyka or momordika
this is the ukranian to english translation and some of the google images look the same

[JJSH]

Thanks for all the usefull reples ~ yep, it looks like Balsam Pear to me.

Can't wait until next year, looks like it needs to go inside in pots in april time.

[Tam]

Momordica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - this is the Wilkipedia link for this species.