File:Buffalo Gourd Curcurbita foetidissma (2bc69745-1dd8-b71b-0b61-3afc02111e9c).JPG

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English: Buffalo Gourd Curcurbita foetidissma
Photographer
English: NPS Photo
Title
English: Buffalo Gourd Curcurbita foetidissma
Publisher
English: U.S. National Park Service
Description
English:

Plant with green heart-shaped leaves

Buffalo gourd is often called Coyote-Melon and has heart-shaped leaves, grayish-green above and white below, with finely toothed edges. The leaves are roughly textured and foul smelling. The fruit is gourd-like resembling a little round watermelon, smooth with green and white stripes turning yellow when ripe. The broad trumpet-shaped flower is yellow or orange with petals that flare widely into five pointed wrinkled lobes. American Indians have used this plant for 9,000 years, extracting oil for cooking from the edible seeds or roasting and slating them to make the seeds into mush. The dried fruit was picked to make gourd rattles used during ceremonies. Pioneers used the crushed root as a cleansing agent in washing clothes. The crushed leaves are an effective insecticide.
Depicted place
English: Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument
Date Taken on 10 May 2015
Accession number
2bc69745-1dd8-b71b-0b61-3afc02111e9c
Source
English: NPGallery
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Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
NPS Unit Code
InfoField
ALFL
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English: Ethnobotany: Edible, Medicinal & Useful Plants

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