Sessile-leaved cucumber (Coccinia sessilifolia) Cucurbitaceae

The fruits ripen through yellow to red from the tip.

It is a herbaceous perennial climber with a tuberous rootstock.

 Both the fruit and the tuber are used as food by the San people, the fruit being best when still green and cooked as a vegetable.

The seeds of the ripened fruit are eaten by birds and so propagated.

These plants occur in grassland and bushveld.