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  2. Crescentia cujete - Wikipedia

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    In many rural parts of Mexico, the calabash is dried and carved hollow to create a bule or a guaje, a gourd used to carry water around like a canteen. The jícara fruit is cut in half, which gave the parallel name to a clay cup also called jícara. These jícaras can also be used for serving or drinking. [citation needed]

  3. Calabash chalk - Wikipedia

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    Calabash chalk is a naturally occurring material composed of fossilized sea shells. However, it can be prepared artificially by combining clay, sand, wood ash and even salt. By molding and heating this mixture, the calabash chalk is obtained. [5] It is available as a powder, a molded shape or a block. [4] [5]

  4. Crescentia alata - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Calabash - Wikipedia

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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 .

  6. Crescentia - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Passiflora maliformis - Wikipedia

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    Passiflora maliformis, the sweet calabash, conch apple, wild purple passionfruit, or sweet cup, is a smallish (5 cm or 2 in) passionfruit with purple, yellow or green skin and a greyed-yellow to orange pulp that is aromatically scented and flavoured. It is a fast-growing vine, growing best in somewhat cooler-than-tropical climates.

  8. Jimmy Durante’s Mrs. Calabash helped put NC fishing village ...

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    Fried seafood is the main celebrity in Calabash, but the town’s mythology owes some of its fame to a star-kissed moment. Jimmy Durante, a superstar of the 1930s radio era and the voice of an ...

  9. Calumet Baking Powder Company - Wikipedia

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    The new baking powder formula replaced cream of tartar with aluminum phosphate and also included dried egg whites. This formula was created by Wright with the help of chemist George Campbell Rew. In 1929, William Wright sold out to General Foods and the "Calumet" baking powder became one of its many name brands .