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裏道でスズメウリの果実を見つけました。果実は1cmほどの球形で、はじめは緑色ですが、後に写真のように灰白色になります。和名のスズメウリは、カラスウリに対してより小型であることが由来のようです。


I found the fruit of "Suzume-Uri (スズメウリ)" plants on the back road. Their fruit is around 1 cm in diameter. They are green at first and turn ash-white later as you can see in the photo. The name "Suzume-Uri" means "sparrow-melon" and it comes from the fact that their fruit is smaller than the fruit of "Karasu-Uri (カラスウリ)" plants, whose name means "crow melon".