What Is The Scientific Name Of Bottle Gourd? (ANSWERS)
SCIENTIFIC NAME OF BOTTLE GOURD – In this topic, we are going to know about the scientific name of bottle gourd or known locally as upo.
Also commonly known as calabash, and other names like white-flowered gourd, long melon, New Guinea bean and Tasmania bean, or in the Philippines “upo”, it is a vine grown for its fruit.
The fruit can be harvested young to be eaten as a vegetable, or harvested mature to be used as a utensil.
The fresh fruit has a light green and smooth skin and comes with a variety of shapes: huge and rounded, small and bottle shaped, or slim and serpent-like.
Upo is commonly cultivated in tropical and subtropical areas of the world and is believed to be from southern Africa.
Scientific Name
The binomial nomenclature of bottle gourd is Lagenaria siceraria.
The genus Lagenaria refers to a gourd-bearing vines in the squash family Cucurbitaceae. Accoding to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, it is a New Latin term that is derived from the Latin word lagena or “large flask” and the New Latin suffix –aria.
The species name siceraria might have possibly derived from the Latin word sicera meaning “beer” referring to its bottle-like shape, and the suffix –aria.
READ ALSO – What Is The Scientific Name Of Sponge Gourd? (ANSWERS)