oils and high-fat foods, which may cause the sphincter in the stomach to relax.meat, as it tends to be high in cholesterol and fatty acids.The seeds are ovate-elliptical, flattened, 15 to 25 x 7 to 12 mm, and a dark brown to black or creamy white colour. I) light or dark green, with or without longitudinal white lines or stripes towards the apex The fruit is globose to ovoid-elliptical, with three colour patterns: Fruits look a bit like a speckled watermelon and are quite popular in Latin America. The fruit can last without decomposing for several years if kept dry after harvest.Ī fairly large, oblong fruit and a member of the melon family.
#GORD VEGETABLE SKIN#
Its skin can vary from light or dark green to cream. The fruit is oblong with a diameter of 20 centimeters or eight inches, weighs 5 to 6 kilograms (eleven to 13 pounds), and can produce up to 500 seeds. In stark contrast to other Cucurbita, its fruit is highly uniform in size, shape, and color. The fruit is oblong, resembling a watermelon, with wide black seeds. They are of a thickened style and have three lobate stigmas. The female flowers have sturdy peduncles, 3 to 5 cm long, an ovoid to elliptical, multilocular ovary: sepals that are occasionally foliaceous and a corolla that is somewhat larger than that of the male flowers.
The male flowers are long and pedicellate, have a campanulate calyx that is 5 to 10 mm long and almost as wide, 5 to 15 x 1 to 2 mm linear sepals and a tubular-campanulate corolla that is rather broader towards the base, 6 to 12 cm long and yellow to pale orange. The flowers are pentamerous, solitary, and axillary. The color of the flowers is yellow to orange. The plant is monoecious with imperfect flowers (meaning its flowers are either male or female but both sexes can be found on the same plant) and are pollinated by insects, especially bees. They have denticulate margins and three to four ramified tendrils. The leaves with 5 to 25 cm petioles that are ovate-cordate to suborbicular-cordale, with or without white spots on the surface, and have three to five rounded or obtuse, apiculate lobules, the central one bigger than the lateral ones. Its leaves resemble fig leaves, hence its most common name in English - fig-leaf gourd - and its Latin species name ( Cucurbita ficifolia which means fig leaf). The vine can become semiwoody if left to grow perennially, although most commercial plants are annual. It may root from the leaf axils, unlike most other curcubits. It has five vigorous, slightly angular stems. The plant stem can grow five to fifteen meters and produces tendrils that help it climb adjacent plants and structures.
Unlike some other Cucurbita species, it does not have swollen storage roots. Like most members of the Cucurbita species, it is a climbing vine that is an annual in temperate climates and a perennial in tropical zones. It is resistant to low temperatures but not to severe frosts. Pepo malabaricus Sageret 2- Characteristics of the Species Cucurbita ficifolia - Fig Leaf GourdĬucurbita ficifolia is a creeping or climbing plant, monoecious, annual although persistent for a certain period, giving the impression of being a short-lived perennial - without swollen reserve roots.
Although it is closely related to other squashes in its genus, such as the cucumber, it shows considerable biochemical difference from them and does not hybridize readily with them.įig-leaf gourd, Fig leaf squash, Asian pumpkin, Siam pumpkin, Malabar gourd, Cidra, Sidra, Black-seed squash, Pie melon and Thai marrow.
1.2- Species Cucurbita ficifolia – Fig leaf Gourd, Asian Pumpkin, Siam PumpkinĬucurbita ficifolia is a creeping or climbing plant in the genus Cucurbita, in the tribe Cucurbiteae, in the subfamily Cucurbitoideae of the cucumber family Cucurbitaceae.Ĭucurbita ficifolia is a monoecious, annual-although persistent for a certain period, giving the impression of being a short-lived perennial-without swollen reserve roots.Ĭucurbita ficifolia, which has many common names in English, is a type of squash grown for its edible seeds, fruit, and greens.
0 kommentar(er)
