the gourd fruit of the calabash tree at a market stall in Amsterdam in the Netherlands
baskets full of the gourd fruit of the calabash tree at a market stall in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The so called calabash gourd or vine is named after the calabash tree first discovered in the Caribbean as the tree called Crescentia cujete L. This is true calabash. The 'calabashes' made from bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria. The calabash (not to be confused with the calabaza) is a vine grown for its fruit, which can either be harvested young and used as a vegetable or harvested mature, dried, and used as a bottle, utensil, or pipe. For this reason, one of the calabash subspecies is known as the bottle gourd. The fresh fruit has a light green smooth skin and a white flesh. The calabash was one of the first cultivated plants in the world, grown not for food but as a container.
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