Los Amigos Jungle Cucumbers - Figure 4 1.1 2003/08/14 14:29:22 GMT-5 2003/08/14 16:16:25.469 GMT-5 John Janovec jjanovec@brit.org John Janovec jjanovec@brit.org Mariyah Poonawala mariyah@rice.edu Kyle Clarkson kclarks@rice.edu

The ovaries of the female Gurania flowers are inferior, that is, they develop beneath the flower rather than inside of it. On the right is an immature fruit, cut in half longitudinally. You can see the resemblance to a cucumber. Some ants (seen on the central flower) like the taste of Gurania nectar.