Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name
Crescentia cujete L.
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.
Crescentia cujete
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.
L.
Common names
Calabash, Calabash Tree, Common Calabash Tree, Goobie Tree, calabash-tree, callebasse boite, callebasse coricon, callebasse longue, tree calabash, wild calabash
Names in other languages (115)Berenuk, Cabaceira, Cabaça-de-árvore, Calabash (Virgin Isl.), Calabash tree (Jamaica), Calabash-tree (Bahamas), Calabazo, Calabaça, Calbas Rondo, Calbas di Mondi, Calebasse, Calebasse marron, Calebassier, Calebassier (Lesser Antilles), Calebassier des Antilles, Cuia-de-árvore, Cujuba, Dzbaniwo kalebasowe, Etréti, Filenjiri, Guira, Guira cimarrona, Guira comun, Guira de vaca, Guira jia, Guira larga, Guira redonda, Guiro, Guïra, Güira, Güiro, Higuera, Higuere, Higuero, Higuero (Puerto Rico), Higuero galion, Higüero, Higüero galión, Jiguero (Dominican Republic), Jigüero, Jícaro, Kalabaş ağacı, Kalbas, Kalbas Rondó, Kalbas di Fontein, Kalbas di Kunuku, Kalbas di Mondi, Kalebassenbaum, Kodjo, Kodjo keli, Kodjo bole, Kudju, Mè̱, Mújimo, Palu di Kalbas, Petite calebasse des bois, Petite cerise (Haiti), Tecomate, Totuma (Cuba), Totumo, ayale, buhango, calabacero, calabasa, calbas, cerial, cirian mazo, coité, coitê, crescencia, cuatecomate, cueira, cuia, cuieira, cuiteseiva, cuité, cuitê, cujeté, fľaškovník obyčajný, guacal, güira del monte, hoco, huaz, hue kirikiri, huingo, jicara, jicaro, kabami, kalabash, kalebassträd, kulhokalebassipuu, luch, maraka chrastivá, mate, morro, pati, pilche, pilchimate, porobamba, sacha huingo, tapara, totuma, totumo cimarron, tsapa, tutuma, Árbol de las calabazas, árvore-de-cuia, Đào tiên, Калебасовое дерево, ডুগডুগি বা বৈষ্ণব বেল, കമണ്ഡലു മരം, น้ำเต้าต้น, ヒョウタンノキ, フクベノキ, 砲彈樹, 葫蘆樹, 蒲瓜樹
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).
Plantae
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.
Tracheophyta
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).
Magnoliopsida
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).
Lamiales
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).
Bignoniaceae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.
Crescentia
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.
cujete
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.
species
Reference species
Crescentia cujete
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.
accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.
Least concern (LC)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-22 09:46.
Photo of Crescentia cujete L.
Photo: Sam Droege · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Crescentia cujete L.
Photo: Carlos Domínguez-Rodríguez · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Crescentia cujete L.
Photo: amantedarmanin · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Crescentia cujete L.
Photo: Isis I. Castro Alberto · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-22 09:46.

Interacciones documentadas

GloBI says it is documented somewhere in the world. Biolitica answers whether it could happen here.

A documented interaction means it was recorded somewhere in the world. It does not mean it occurs here.

Types shown: 6 of 6 is a host of × is visited by × is eaten by × is adjacent to × interacts with × has its flowers visited by ×

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is a host of 50 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. In the source ontology symbiosis covers mutualism, commensalism and parasitism alike, so this block holds attackers and allies side by side.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Meliola crescentiae Meliolaceae is a host of 18 not compared
Phillipsiella crescentiae Saccardiaceae is a host of 5 no location
Morenoella calami Asterinaceae is a host of 4 not compared
Hazelaarmeeldauw Phyllactinia guttata Erysiphaceae is a host of 3 no location
Showing 4 of 50, by number of studies See more of this type

is visited by 14 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Pallas's Long-Tongued Bat Glossophaga soricina Phyllostomidae is visited by 9 not compared
Great Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus lituratus Phyllostomidae is visited by 2 no location
Bat Chiroptera is visited by 2 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at order level.
Jamaica Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus jamaicensis Phyllostomidae is visited by 2 no location
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is eaten by 2 organisms

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Pallas's Long-Tongued Bat Glossophaga soricina Phyllostomidae is eaten by 2 no location
Giant Honey Bee Apis dorsata Apidae is eaten by 1 not compared
Showing 2 of 2, by number of studies

is adjacent to 1 organism

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Epidendrum papillosum Orchidaceae is adjacent to 1 no location
Showing 1 of 1, by number of studies

interacts with 1 organism

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Sebacina Sebacinaceae interacts with 1 no location
Showing 1 of 1, by number of studies

Flower visit

has its flowers visited by 1 organism

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. Visiting a flower is not pollinating it. «Pollinates» is a different term and a different block, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Pallas's Long-Tongued Bat Glossophaga soricina Phyllostomidae has its flowers visited by 1 not compared
Showing 1 of 1, by number of studies

Acompañantes documentados

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Documented uses and recommendations

Uses and recommendations that a source documents for this species beside a crop, each in its own context. They are the source's statements, not traits of the species and not Biolítica's recommendations, and none of them is a relation between two species.

Among the sources you can read, none documents a use or recommendation of this species beside a crop.