Although the bitter gourd or bitter melon Momordica charantia is common throughout the New World tropics, it is actually native to the Old World. 22-28 See photos from Ash Wednesday, OU and OSU basketball games, the Oklahoma Aquarium and more. When fear of frost is passed, gardeners can take their seeds to the garden and put them in the soil points down. When you buy seedless watermelon seeds, you get two kinds of seeds, one for the fertile diploid plant and one for the sterile triploid. Here is female flower with the small gourd fruit at the base. If gourd is cross pollinated with another variety, the seeds from that gourd will produce gourds whose shapes are anyone identifying gourds guess. Their general growth form resembles some of the dioscoreas Dioscoreaceae although the two families are unrelated and undoubtedly represent examples of convergent evolution in arid regions.