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The use of the calabash in Hawaii has led to terms like "calabash family" or "calabash cousins", indicating an extended family grown up around shared meals and close friendships. This gourd is often dried when ripe and used as a percussion instrument called an ipu heke (double gourd drum) or just Ipu in contemporary and ancient hula .
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] It is the national tree of St ...
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]
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.
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 ...
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.
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Lagenaria is a genus of gourd-bearing vines in the squash family (Cucurbitaceae). Lagenaria contains six species, all of which are indigenous to tropical Africa. [1] The best-known species, the calabash or bottle gourd, L. siceraria, has been domesticated by humans, and has spread beyond Africa.