Calabash
ಸೋರೆलौकीசுரைக்காய்
Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 9.0 m
- wide
- 4.0 m
Cucurbitaceae
Also called Bottle Gourd, New Guinea bean, Calabash Gourd, Flask Calabash, Large African Calabash
Formerly Cucumis bicirrha, Cucumis lagenaria, Cucumis mairei, Cucurbita idololatrica, and 15 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Climbing annualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- W. Trop. Africa to Ethiopia and TanzaniaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 9.0 mRead from Plants For A Future and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Spread
- 3.0 m to 4.9 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension white, yellow; Wikipedia white
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Acocote, Calabaza mate, Porongo
- root
- alacate, arócosim, cixauri-te
- German
- Flaschenkürbis
- Portuguese
- cabaceiro, porongo, Abóbora-d'água
- Chinese
- 蒲瓜, 扁蒲, 葫蘆
- Czech
- lagenárie obecná
- Russian
- Лагенария обыкновенная
- Ojibwa
- Jica'wîgan
- French
- Calebasse, gourde
- Chinese (China)
- 葫芦, 瓢箪, 蒲瓜
- Māori
- Hue
- Afrikaans
- Kalbas, bierkalabas, bierkalbas
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Plants For A Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Lagenaria siceraria (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.