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calabash trees
Crescentia
Crescentia (calabash tree, huingo, krabasi, or kalebas) is a genus of six species of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to southern North America, the Caribbean, Central America and northern South America. The species are moderate-size trees growing to 10 m (35 ft) tall, and producing large spherical fruits, with a thin, hard shell and soft pulp, up to 25 cm (10 in) in diameter.
6 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Calabash Tree
speciesCrescentia cujete
Winged Calabash
speciesCrescentia alata
higuerito
speciesCrescentia linearifolia
Higuero de Sierra
speciesCrescentia portoricensis
Crescentia mirabilis
speciesCrescentia mirabilis
Crescentia amazonica
speciesCrescentia amazonica
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 147263.