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Crescentia cujete, dry fruit and seeds – MHNT Flower Pollen grains, magnified. Crescentia cujete, commonly known as the calabash tree, is a species of flowering plant native to the Americas, that is grown in Africa, South-East Asia, Central America, South America, the West Indies and extreme southern Florida. [2]
Calabash fruits have a variety of shapes: they can be huge and rounded, small and bottle-shaped, or slim and serpentine, and they can grow to be over a metre long. Rounder varieties are typically called calabash gourds. The gourd was one of the world's first cultivated plants grown not primarily for food, but for use as containers.
Crescentia (calabash tree, huingo, krabasi, or kalebas) is a genus of six species [2] of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and northern South America. [1]
Culturally, the Calabash was used as a signal to call community members to a village meeting for unity. [7] It was drummed using metallic strings for its sound to reach longer distance. To this present day, The calabash is still used for many traditional functions and tourism. [4] Also, witch doctors use it to perform rituals at different ...
The main plants referred to as gourds include several species from the genus Cucurbita (mostly native to North America, including the Malabar gourd and turban squash), Crescentia cujete (the tree gourd or calabash tree, native to the American tropics) and Lagenaria siceraria (bottle gourd, thought to be originally from Africa but present ...
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Crescentia alata, variously called Mexican calabash, jícaro, morro, morrito, or winged calabash, [1] is a plant species in the family Bignoniaceae and in the genus Crescentia, native to southern Mexico and Central America south to Costa Rica.