Squash Lagenaria Mace

Lagenariya or Indian cucumber or gourd or calabash, or gourd Dish - an annual plant of the gourd family . Plants have a long growing season (80 - 100 days) and increased requirements for ambient temperature . The fruits of this vegetable whitelight green or green (yellowish when ripe, often patterned, very diverse forms - a bottle, a pear-shaped, cylindrical, spherical, etc. . Sometimes reaching fantastic lengths - from 1.5 to 2 m, and their weight reaches 3 - 7 kg . For cooking, you can not use the whole fruit, and cut off from the growing fetus asas required, and then the remainder of the fetus will continue to grow, and the cut is solidified, to cover new skin. Fruits bottle, or china, Lagenaria are tasteless pulp and food are not used . cured ripened fruits are used for decorative purposes .