Calabash or bottle gourd production, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil.

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It 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. In South America calabash gourds are dried and carved into mates, the traditional container for the popular caffeinated tealike drink brewed from the yerba mate plant.

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Size: 3872px × 2592px
Location: Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil.
Photo credit: © Lena Trindade / BrazilPhotos / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: america, bottle, brasil, brazil, cabaca, cabaç, calabash, gourd, instrument, latin, mate, musical, south, yerba