🌾 Crop
ANX-CROP-0000414
Bottle gourd
Lagenaria siceraria
A climbing vine grown for its large fruit, eaten young as a vegetable and dried mature for use as containers.
- Species
- Lagenaria siceraria
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae
- Climate requirements
- Warm, frost-free tropical and subtropical climate.
- Temperature range
- 19-27°C (absolute 12-38°C)
- Rainfall range
- 1200-1800mm (absolute 700-2800mm)
- Altitude range
- 2700m
- Soil types
- Fertile, well-drained soils.
- Soil pH
- 5.5-7 (absolute 4.5-7.5)
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