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Crescentia alata - Fruit - Click to enlarge!

Fruit; Botanical Garden, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; 5/2012 © Jörn Germer

Crescentia alata - Upper and lower surface of leaves - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaves; Botanical Garden, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; 5/2012 © Jörn Germer

Crescentia alata - Trunk with fruits - Click to enlarge!

Trunk with fruits; Botanical Garden, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; 5/2012 © Jörn Germer

Crescentia alata - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Botanical Garden, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; 5/2012 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 2315
Date of entry: 25.10.2014
Last update: 30.05.2020

Common name

English: Mexican calabash

German: Kalebassenbaum

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2616)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2519)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2128)

      Order: Scrophulariales (98)

        Family: Bignoniacea (19)(family description)

          Genus: Crescentia (2)

            Epithet: alata Kunth (6)

alata => winged, with wings

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habit: tree

Flower colour: purple, orange, yellow

External links

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