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Crescentia alata

Crescentia alata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Bignoniaceae
Genus: Crescentia
Species:
C. alata
Binomial name
Crescentia alata
C. alata diagram.

Crescentia alata, variously called Mexican calabash, jícaro, morro, morrito, or winged calabash,[1] is a plant species in the family Bignoniaceae and in the genus Crescentia, native to southern Mexico and Central America south to Costa Rica.

  1. ^ Crescentia Alata Archived 2009-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, Stephen H Brown, Factsheet, Lee County Extension Gardening Publications, University of Florida

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