Calabash Round Edible bottle gourd Gaguava bean,opo,lauki100 See...

Calabash Round" Edible bottle gourd Gaguava bean,opo,lauki(100 Seeds) Asian vegetable seed"

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Calabash Round,Edible bottle gourd.(Lagenaria siceraria)
This round-shaped gourd has many uses. The immature fruit can be steamed it must be picked before the skin hardens. Mature fruit is used mainly for kampyo by drying the gourd flesh into strips for sushi. Kampyo needs to be soaked, salted, rinsed and boiled to soften it for use.
Maturity: Approx. 100 days
Planting season: Late spring to early summer
Asian vegetable names...
China: peou gwa, po gua, poo gua, , dudhi, hu gau, hu lu gua
India: lauki
Japan: kampyo, yugao
Philippines: upo
Thailand: buap khaus
Vietnam: bau
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The Calabash, Lagenaria siceraria (synonym Lagenaria vulgaris Ser.), also known as opo squash, bottle gourd or long melon is a vine grown for its fruit, which can either be harvested young and used as a vegetable, or harvested mature, dried, and used as a bottle, utensil, or pipe. The fresh fruit has a light green smooth skin and a white flesh. Rounder varieties are called calabash gourds. They come in a variety of shapes, they can be huge and rounded, or small and bottle shaped, or slim and serpentine, more than a metre long.
Known more in the Chinese regions and Indian subcontinents, bottle gourd has many names in local dialects such as hulu, calabash, lauki, laau, dhudhi, hyotan, hisago etc.
The calabash was one of the first cultivated plants in the world, grown not primarily for food, but for use as a water container. 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. It has been proven to be in New World prior to the arrival of Columbus. It shares its common name with that of the calab

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• Brand:Calabash, Country/Region Of Manufacture:United States
• Model:Gourd, Patternname: 10 Seeds
• Mpn:Asian vegetable