Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Cucurbitales > Cucurbitaceae > Lagenaria > Lagenaria sicerariaLagenaria siceraria (bottle gourd)Synonyms: Cucumis bicirrha (homotypic); Cucumis lagenaria; Cucumis lagenarius; Cucumis mairei; Cucurbita ciceraria; Cucurbita idolatrica; Cucurbita idololatrica; Cucurbita lagenaria; Cucurbita lagenaria var. oblonga; Cucurbita lagenaria var. villosa; Cucurbita leucantha; Cucurbita longa; Cucurbita pepo; Cucurbita pyriformis; Cucurbita siceraria (homotypic); Cucurbita vittata; Lagenaria abyssinica somaliensis; Lagenaria abyssinica var. somaliensis; Lagenaria bicornuta; Lagenaria cochinchinensis; Lagenaria hispida; Lagenaria idolatrica; Lagenaria lagenaria; Lagenaria leucantha; Lagenaria siceraria laevisperma; Lagenaria siceraria var. laevisperma; Lagenaria siceraria var. siceraria; Lagenaria verrucosa; Lagenaria virginalis; Lagenaria vittata; Lagenaria vulgaris (heterotypic); Lagenaria vulgaris afrikana; Lagenaria vulgaris asiatica; Lagenaria vulgaris var. clavata; Lagenaria vulgaris var. gourda; Lagerstroemia indica var. alba; Pepo lagenarius; Trochomeria rehmannii | Edible [1] | May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details. | | Flower Type [1] | Monoecious | | Leaf Type [2] | Evergreen | | Lifespan [1] | Annual | | Pollinators [1] | Insects, Lepidoptera | | Structure [1] | Vine | | Usage [1] | The shell of well-ripened fruits is very hard and can be used for many purposes such as bottles, bowls, musical instruments etc. There are many different shapes of fruits from the various different varieties; |  | | Height [1] | 30 feet (9 m) |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 ♦ 3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández ♦ 4Norrbom, A.L. 2004. Fruit fly (Tephritidae) host plant database. Version Nov, 2004. ♦ 5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009 ♦ 6Review of the Neotropical species of the family Pterophoridae, part I: Ochyroticinae, Deuterocopinae, Pterophorinae (Platyptiliini, Exelastini, Oxyptilini) (Lepidoptera), C. Gielis, Zool. Med. Leiden 80 (2006) |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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