Marah

Tab or >

Use autocomplete instead of having to type full scientific names:

Welwitschia mirabilis or Amborella trichopoda

Search for common names in over 250 languages:

Giant Redwood, Tollkirscheor 芙蕖

Filter results by categories or years:

endangered perennial medicinal 2024 1977

Look up IDs of major taxonomic databases:

4672364-4 or Q36484

Don't know where to start?

Searching for your name or birth year is always fun.

Nothing in your cart yet!Add a device?

	Item	Count		Total
			$

< Back to Overview

Loading shipping options...

< Back to Address

Payment options:

Pay by Credit Card or direct bank debit
Purchase Order Pay by wire or bank transfer After you confirm your order, we'll email you an invoice and all bank details to complete your purchase. Email:

< Back to Shipping

Processing... Creating order Confirming inventory Processing payment Acquiring shipping Final confirmation (Cleaning up)

Order confirmed!

Summary

Devices$ 0

Plants$ 0

ShippingNot yet calculated

TaxesNot yet calculated

Total$ 0

Address

Shipping

Payment

Start Checkout

Home Plants angiosperms cucurbitales cucurbitaceae Marah

Kellogg

1855

manroot

Loading image...

Climate | Habitat | History | Research

Summary

Marah (the manroots, wild cucumbers, or cucumber gourds) are flowering plants in the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae), native to western North America. The genus (which Kellogg noted was characterized by extreme bitterness) was named for Marah in Exodus 15:22–25, which was said to be named for the bitter water there. Except for the isolated range of Marah gilensis (Gila manroot) in west-central Arizona and island populations (M. macrocarpus var. major), all manroot species inhabit overlapping ranges distributed from Southern Canada to Northern Mexico. Although Marah oreganus (coastal manroot) extends inland into Idaho, all other manroot species except M. gilensis are confined to areas within 300 km of the Pacific Ocean coast....read more on Wikipedia.