Lagenaria siceraria - Bottle Gourd - Biodiversity of Singapore

Taxonomic tree

Kingdom Plantae 2414 Phylum Tracheophyta 2407 Subphylum Angiospermae 2272 Class Magnoliopsida 1790 Order Cucurbitales 12 Family Cucurbitaceae 9 Tribe Benincaseae 4 Genus Lagenaria 1

Lagenaria siceraria

Introduced

Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl. Species

Bottle Gourd

Introduced climber species. Cultivated only.

Other common names

Birdhouse Gourd en, Calabash en, Calabash Gourd en, Dipper Gourd en, Flask Calabash en, Hercules Club Gourd en, Italian Edible Gourd en, Large African Calabash en, New Guinea Bean en, Pipe Calabash en, South African Pipe Calabash en, Trumpet Calabash en, White -Fld en, Gourds en, White-flower Gourd en.

Distribution

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chile, China, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eswatini, Ethiopia, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Martinique, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Reunion, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saint-Barthelemy, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, The Gambia, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zambia and Zimbabwe.