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Bottle Gourd / Lauki

Description: A calabash, bottle gourd, or white-flowered gourd, Lagenaria siceraria, also known by many other names, including long melon. Bottle Gourd / Lauki 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's first cultivated plants grown not primarily for food, but for use as containers. The bottle gourd may have been carried from Africa to Asia, Europe, and the Americas in the course of human migration or by seeds floating across the oceans inside the gourd.

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