Calabash Tree

CALABASH TREE
Crescentia cujete
General Notes
Branches Droop, Branches Resist Breakage. Bears stale smelling flowers on its trunk. Fruit used as maracas. SelecTree lists no cultivars of cujete.

Calabash Tree
Dolichandra unguis-cati
Macfadyena unguis-cati, Bignonia unguis-cati, Doxantha unguis-cati ...

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.

Calabash Tree [English]: Crescentia portoricensis
Calabash Tree [English]: Crescentia cujete
Calabash Valentine Rhododendron [English]: Rhododendron 'Calabash Valentine'
Calabash-Nutmeg [English]: Monodora myristica ...

Calabash Tree. Native of tropical America. Not common but in Bermuda by 1790. See healthy specimens at Camden Lawn in Botanical Gardens, junction of Verdmont and Middle Road, and Somers's Garden in St. George's.

Calabash Tree - relative of the Sausage Tree can be immediately recognized by the large, round green fruit attached directly to the branches of the tree. Suriname's traditional medicine, the fruit pulp is used for respiratory problems (asthma).

Nombres relacionados: Arbol de las calabazas (castellano), Bignoniaceae (familia), Coite (gallego y/o portugués), Common calabash tree (inglés), Crescentia acuminata (sinónimo), Crescentia angustifolia (sinónimo), Crescentia arborea (sinónimo), ...

See also: Crescentia cujete, Bignonia, May, Green, Sausage Tree