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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]
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.
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]
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.
In western Uganda region, calabash is used for processing local butter or ghee and as well used to store milk for a longer period of time. [9] This was a traditional method of preservation and kept till present day. The calabash in some cases are also used as utensils for eating food or drinking tea and water in some communities.
Brushes made from this tree are hardy and may last for up to two years before replacement. Charcoal "osek", formed from the smouldering embers of branches from the Ite or Itet tree (peanut butter cassia, scientifically known as Senna didymobotrya), is used as a milk preservative. [7] Women use the embers to coat the inside of the cleaned gourd.
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Most of the plants in this family are annual vines, but some are woody lianas, thorny shrubs, or trees (Dendrosicyos). Many species have large, yellow or white flowers. The stems are hairy and pentangular. Tendrils are present at 90° to the leaf petioles at nodes. Leaves are exstipulate, alternate, simple palmately lobed or palmately compound.