Indigo.—Indigo.
Classic texts: King's 1898.
Crescentia cujete L.
Engl.: common calabash tree, calabash, calabash tree.
Deu.: Kalebassenbaum.
Port.: cabaco, coite, cuia, cuieira, cuite.
Bot. syn.: Crescentia acuminata Kunth.
Classic texts: King's 1898.
Fruit, heavy enough to bend the branch to the ground. Penedo, Brazil. Planted. 2001-02-16.
Classic texts: USDisp 1918.
Classic texts: Sturtevant 1919.
Classic texts: Journals: AJP 1884.
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