Crescentia cujete L.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Bignoniaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Crescentia cujete L.

  • Description

    Species Description - A tree, attaining a maximum height of about 10 m., the trunk up to 2 dm. in diameter, with long spreading branches. Leaves spatulate to oblance olate, fascicled, 5-15 cm. long, obtuse, acute or short-acuminate at the apex, narrowed to the nearly sessile base; flowers stout-peduncled; calyx 2-2.5 cm. long, its lobes broad, rounded or obtuse; corolla yellowish-purple, 5-6 cm. long, its lobes lacerate, much shorter than the tube; fruit subglobose to oval, 1.5-3 dm. in diameter, its rind hard.

  • Distribution

    Jumbie Hole, Acklin's Island : Florida ; West Indies ; continental tropical America. Often planted for its valuable fruit. Calabash.

    Acklins Bahamas South America| Florida United States of America North America| West Indies|