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Crescentia cujete - Fruit - Click to enlarge!

Fruit; Ngũ Lạc, Duyên Hải District, Trà Vinh, Vietnam; 12/2019 © Jörn Germer

Crescentia cujete - Fruit - Click to enlarge!

Fruit; Rancho Grande, Rondonia, Brazil; 2/2004 © Sonja Germer

Crescentia cujete - Flower after pollination without petals - Click to enlarge!

Flower after pollination without petals; University of Cape Coast, Central Region, Ghana; 5/2009 © Jörn Germer

Crescentia cujete - Fruit - Click to enlarge!

Fruit; Rancho Grande, Rondonia, Brazil; 2/2004 © Sonja Germer

Crescentia cujete - Fruit - Click to enlarge!

Fruit; Botanical Garden, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil; 3/2012 © Jörn Germer

Crescentia cujete - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Botanical Garden, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil; 3/2012 © Jörn Germer

Crescentia cujete - Branch - Click to enlarge!

Branch; Rancho Grande, Rondonia, Brazil; 2/2004 © Sonja Germer

Crescentia cujete - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; University of Cape Coast, Central Region, Ghana; 5/2009 © Jörn Germer

Crescentia cujete - Foliage - Click to enlarge!

Foliage; University of Cape Coast, Central Region, Ghana; 5/2009 © Jörn Germer

Crescentia cujete - Foliage - Click to enlarge!

Foliage; Botanical Garden, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil; 3/2012 © Jörn Germer

Crescentia cujete - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Botanical Garden, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil; 3/2012 © Jörn Germer

Crescentia cujete - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; University of Cape Coast, Central Region, Ghana; 5/2009 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 72
Date of entry: 10.06.2005
Last update: 11.08.2023

Common name

English: Calabash

German: Kalebassenbaum

Portuguese: Árvore da cuia, Cujeté

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2659)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2167)

      Order: Lamiales (196)

        Family: Bignoniaceae (19)(family description)

          Genus: Crescentia (2)

            Epithet: cujete L. (1)

Synonym: Crescentia fasciculata Miers

cujete => derived from an aboriginal name for Crescentia cujete

fasciculata => clustered, growing in bundles

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: tree

Flower colour: green, white

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