Wild Flowering Plants
| Bignoniaceae family Crescentia cujete Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 626. 1753. Kalbas. Calabash. Indigenous quite rare tree of dry savanna and deciduous seasonal forest. Anguilla, St. Martin, St. Barthélemy, Barbuda, Antigua, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Kitts, Nevis, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, La Désirade, Marie Galante, Les Saintes, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, the Grenadines, Grenada, Barbados, rest of West Indies, Mesoamerica, South America. Also cultivated. The woody capsule is used as a bowl and for handicrafts. Local medicinal uses |
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