English: Bottle Gourd, Calabash Gourd

German: Flaschenkürbis

Mandarin: 葫芦 (hu lu)

Portuguese: Cabaça longa

Kingdom: Plantae (2092)

  Phylum: Magnoliophyta (1999)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (1685)

      Order: Violales (54)

        Family: Cucurbitaceae (19) (family description)

          Genus: Lagenaria (1)

           Epithet: siceraria (Molina) Standl. (1)

Synonyms: Cucurbita lagenaria L., Cucurbita siceraria Molina, Lagenaria leucantha Rusby, Lagenaria vulgaris Ser.

leucantha => bearing white flowers

siceraria => comes from Hebrew "shekhar" for strong drink, latinised "sicera" for drinking vessel

vulgaris => common, everyday

Climate: sub-tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: white

Check for Lagenaria siceraria at The Plant List, GBIF or IPNI

• [585] Lagenaria siceraria - Plants For A Future database
• [1813] Lagenaria siceraria - Flora of China @ efloras.org

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