Cucurbit flowers are white; pedicels fine, slightly longer than petioles, pedicels, calyx, and corolla puberulent; calyx tube funnel-shaped, ca. 2 cm, lobes lanceolate, 5 mm long; corolla yellow, lobes crumpled, 3-4 cm long, 2-3 cm wide;

apex emarginate and apically cuspidate, 5-veined; stamens 3, filaments 3-4 mm long, anthers 8-10 mm long anthers 8-10 mm long, oblong, locules folded.

Female flowers with pedicels slightly shorter than or nearly as long as petioles; calyx and corolla resembling male flowers; calyx tube 2-3 mm long; ovary constricted at middle, densely mucilaginous-villous, styles stubby, stigmas 3, inflated, 2-lobed.

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Cucurbits like warm, sheltered environments and need a lot of space when planted. Young seedlings are afraid of freezing. Fresh cucurbits have tender green skins and white flesh, and the fruit, also known as gourds, can be harvested when immature and eaten as a vegetable.

The fruit is green at first, and then turns white to yellowish, due to long-term cultivation, the fruit shape varies a lot, depending on the different varieties or variants, some are dumbbell-shaped, the middle constriction is thin, the lower and upper part of the expansion, the upper part of the larger than the lower part of the

Cucurbit the length of each type of cultivation of the vine, the size of the leaves, the size of the flower, the size of the fruit shape varies. Fruit has a stick, ladybird, dolphin-shaped, pot-shaped, etc., the name of the type also depends on the shape of the fruit. In addition, in ancient times, people dried the gourd, hollowed out its inside, to do the object of holding things.