Summary
Place of publication:
Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 3(3):435. 1930
Verified:
09/19/2000
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
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Common names
English
bottle gourd – calabash – calabash gourd – white-flower gourd – French
calebassier – gourde bouteille – German
Flaschenkürbis – gewöhnlicher Flaschenkürbis – Kalebasse – India
dudhi – Japanese Rōmaji
hyōtan – Portuguese
cabaco – Spanish
acocote – cajombre – calabaza – guiro amargo – Swedish
flaskkurbits – Transcribed Chinese
hu lu – Transcribed Korean
bag –
Distribution
| order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
| 1 | Native | Africa | South Tropical Africa | Zimbabwe | | |
| 4 | Naturalized | | | | | |
| 6 | Other | | | | | |
Native
Africa
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SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA:
Zimbabwe
Naturalized
()
Other
()
Economic Uses
| Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
| Human food | vegetable | | Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds. 1993. Vegetables. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 8:191. |
| Materials | carved material | | Decker-Walters, D. S. 1999. Cucurbit, Sanskrit, and the Indo-Aryas. Econ. Bot. 53:101. |
| Medicines | folklore | | McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 |
| Vertebrate poisons | mammals | | Kellerman, T. S. et al. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. 1988 |
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System.
2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network
(GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://ausgenebank.agriculture.vic.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=21385.
Accessed 16 December 2025.