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Bottle Gourd
Lagenaria siceraria
Published 2001
Also
calabash ,hu lu gua and similar names (Chinese) ,lauki and dudhi (Indian) ,upo (Philippine) Including
cucuzza and tennerumi
Cucurbits—a colloquial catchall term used to signify members of the Cucurbitaceae or gourd family (which includes some 800 species)—are as often as not notable more for their usefulness than their distinctiveness. Mild, versatile, and adaptable, the bottle gourd, for example, appears in daily meals from India to Italy, China to Mexico.
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