Pumpkin, an annual creeping herb. The stem is several meters long, takes root at the nodes, is stout, wrinkled, short and stiff, and the tendrils are divided into 3-4 forks. Simple leaves alternate, heart-shaped or broadly ovate, 5-lobed and 5-angled, slightly soft, 15 ~ 30 cm long, densely covered on both sides, with white spots on the leaf margin and irregular serrations on the edge. Flowers are solitary and monoecious. Male receptacle short. Calyx lobes are linear, and the top expands into leaves. Corolla bell-shaped, yellow, 5-cleft, lobes abduction, with crepe. Three stamens. Anthers connivent, regular S-shaped. The calyx of female flower is obviously split, the ovary is round or oval, the cell is 1, the style is short, there are 3 stigmas and 2 lobes. Fruits are oblate, pot-shaped, cylindrical and so on. There are longitudinal grooves and protrusions on the surface, smooth or tumor-like protrusions. Like orange petals, from orange yellow to orange red. The fruit stalk has a groove, and the pedicel expands into a trumpet. The seeds are ovoid or ovoid, 1.5 ~ 2 cm long, grayish white or yellowish white, with thin edges. The flowering period is from May to July, and the fruiting period is from July to September. Originated in South Asia, it is cultivated all over the world. Fruits are used as vegetables; Seeds are edible with oil, and seeds (pumpkin seeds) and pedicels are often used as medicine, which can repel insects, strengthen the spleen and breastfeed.

Beigua is a semi-wild plant. Because of its low yield, people don't know much about it, because it is not as sweet as watermelon, the fragrance of wax gourd and the high yield of pumpkin.

Beigua is shaped like a pumpkin but smaller, also known as peach pumpkin, and its skin color is red and yellow like gold, so it is also called golden melon. Sweet and non-toxic, it has the effect of moistening lung and relieving asthma. People in China often use it to treat asthma.

Beigua is a vegetable variety with low yield, which is not suitable for large-scale planting. He planted a small amount of these northern melons in the small vegetable garden in front of his house.

"Beigua" is a semi-wild plant. Because of its low yield, it is not as sweet as watermelon, sweet as wax gourd and high as pumpkin, so people don't know much about it.

Morphological characteristics: Cucurbitaceae is an annual creeping herb. There are translucent coarse hairs on the stem. Tendrils bifurcate. Leaves papery, triangular or ovate. Flowers monoecious, solitary, yellow. The shape of fruit varies with varieties, and the seeds are white.