Calabash | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-02-18

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabash


00:01:16 1 Origin and dispersal
00:02:03 1.1 Cultivation
00:05:28 2 Toxicity
00:06:58 3 Culinary uses
00:07:07 3.1 Central America
00:07:43 3.2 East Asia
00:07:52 3.2.1 China
00:08:18 3.2.2 Japan
00:09:05 3.2.3 Korea
00:09:53 3.3 Southeast Asia
00:10:02 3.3.1 Burma
00:10:27 3.3.2 Philippines
00:10:46 3.3.3 Vietnam
00:11:25 3.4 South Asia
00:11:34 3.4.1 India
00:12:09 3.4.2 Bangladesh
00:12:28 3.4.3 Nepal
00:12:46 3.4.4 Pakistan
00:13:27 3.4.5 Sri Lanka
00:13:47 3.5 Middle East
00:14:17 3.6 Europe
00:14:31 4 Cultural uses
00:14:41 4.1 Africa
00:16:09 4.2 Caribbean
00:17:12 4.3 China
00:18:10 4.4 Costa Rica
00:18:57 4.5 Hawaii
00:19:39 4.6 India
00:21:16 4.7 Mexico
00:21:45 4.8 South America
00:23:25 4.8.1 Venezuela
00:24:13 5 Other uses



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SUMMARY
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A calabash, bottle gourd, or white-flowered gourd, Lagenaria siceraria, also known by many other names, including long melon, New Guinea bean and Tasmania bean, is a vine grown for its fruit, which can be either harvested young to be consumed as a vegetable, or harvested mature to be dried and used as a utensil. When it is fresh, the fruit has a light green smooth skin and white flesh.
Calabash fruits 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. It has been proven to have existed in the New World prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus.Because bottle gourds are also called "calabashes", they are sometimes confused with the hard, hollow fruits of the unrelated calabash tree, Crescentia cujete, whose fruits are also used to make utensils, containers, and musical instruments.