Common calabash tree
திருவோட்டுக்காய்കമണ്ഡലു മരംডুগডুগি গাছ
Crescentia cujete L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 10 m
- wide
- 10 m
Bignoniaceae
Formerly Crescentia acuminata, Crescentia arborea, Crescentia cuneifolia, Crescentia fasciculata, and 3 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to Venezuela, CaribbeanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 10 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Spread
- 10 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (5)
- Simplified Chinese
- 炮弹果, 葫芦树, 瓠瓜木
- Chinese
- 葫芦树, 铁西瓜
- Tamil
- திருவோட்டுக்காய்
- Bangla
- ডুগডুগি গাছ
- Malayalam
- കമണ്ഡലു മരം
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3D model: Crescentia cujete (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.