Common names: bottle gourd, calabash (Eng.); kalbas (Afr.); moraka (North Sotho); segwana (Tswana); iselwa (Xhosa, Zulu)
Family: Cucurbitaceae
... and about 3 to 4 female flowers occur on a single plant. Lagenaria The calabash can be grown from seed in frost-free ... the maturing fruit might need some support. The genus name Lagenaria comes from lagena, the Latin name for a Florence ... 75 species of this family in southern Africa. The genus Lagenaria contains six species, probably all originally Old ...
06 / 06 / 2005 | M Welman | National Herbarium Pretoria
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