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Cucurbita foetidissima
About
Cucurbita foetidissima is a tuberous xerophytic plant found in the central and southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It has numerous common names, including: buffalo gourd, calabazilla, chilicote, coyote gourd, fetid gourd, fetid wild pumpkin, Missouri gourd, prairie gourd, stinking gourd, wild gourd, and wild pumpkin. The type specimen was collected from Mexico by Humboldt and Bonpland sometime before 1817.
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Cucurbita foetidissima
- Slug
- cucurbita-foetidissima
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae
- Genus
- Cucurbita
- Species
- foetidissima
- Wikidata QID
- Q311136
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
Generated sections & citations
summaryinaturalist