앙팡-Lagenaria (Bottle) Gourds

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Lagenaria (Bottle) Gourds

 

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The Lagenaria species are annual vines that can be grown throughout the state. Their fruit are commonly called bottle gourds, but are also called birdhouse gourds, trumpet gourds, calabash gourds, Cucuzzi, and white-flowered gourds. When very young and small, the fruits can be eaten, but it's the fully mature and dried gourds that are valued for the useful and durable containers that can be made from them.

 

Originating in Africa, Lagenaria is closely related to cucumber, squash, and melon, and has become widely distributed around the world. It is an ancient crop and the only one known to have been cultivated in pre-Columbian times in both the Old and New World. Remains of this gourd have been found in Mexico dating from 7000 to 5500 BC and Peru from 10,000 BC; archeological remains in Egypt show gourds being used in about 3500 to 3300 BC. Dried gourds with viable seeds have survived in seawater for at least 200 days, a characteristic that probably aided in the widespread geographic distribution of this vine.

http://gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/plants/ornamentals/bottle-gourds.html