Crescentia cujete L.

BIGNONIACEAE

- Trumpet-creeper family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Crescentia cujete L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl. 2: 626. 1753 [1 May 1753]
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Common calabash tree

English name: calabash

English name: calabash-tree

Spanish name: morro

French name: calebassier

German name: Kalebassenbaum

Grown habit: Tree, Shrub
Duration: Perennial

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TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Scrophulariales
Family: Bignoniaceae
Genus: Crescentia
Species:

Page counter: 959 ( AVG: 223.4 / 292.911 )

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Crescentia cujete
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Villa de San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Parque Botanico de Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Spagna, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Crescentia cujete
Leaves and fruit at Old macadamia nut orchards Waiehu, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Crescentia cujete
Habit at Old macadamia nut orchards Waiehu, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

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- The New Plantfinder - Images and local names of vascular plants - Project Dryades / KeyToNature, coordinated by the Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
- Lichens - Interactive identification keys to the lichens
- Acta Plantarum - Forum and Image Gallery (Plants, Animals, Mushrooms)

Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (Florida), USA+ (PR, VI)

Distributional map for Crescentia cujete L.
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(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Cresponea premnea (Ach.) Egea & Torrente [188]
2) Cressa depressa Goodding [88]
3) Cressa insularis House [131]
4) Cressa truxillensis Kunth var. minima (A. Heller) Munz [148]
5) Crinum asiaticum L. [1812]
6) Cristatella erosa Nutt. [147]
7) Critesion glaucum (Steud.) A. Löve [138]
8) Crocanthemum arenicola (Chapm.) Barnhart [177]
9) Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora (V. Lemoine) N.E. Br. [695]
10) Crocynia neglecta (Nyl.) Hue [138]

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