CALABASH & X28;Lagenaria Siceraria& X29; Royalty-Free Stock Image

A calabash, bottle gourd,[1] or white-flowered gourd,[2] Lagenaria siceraria, also known by many other names, including long melon, New Guinea bean and Tasmania bean,[3] is a vinegrown for its fruit, which can be either harvested young to be consumed as a vegetable, or harvested mature to be dried and used as a utensil. When it is fresh, the fruit has a light green smooth skin and white flesh. Calabash fruits have a variety of shapes: they can be huge and rounded, small and bottle shaped, or slim and serpentine, and they can grow to be over a metre long. Rounder varieties are typically called calabash gourds. The gourd was one of the world& x27;s first cultivated plants grown not primarily for food