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The bottle gourd, known scientifically as Lagenaria siceraria, is a plant deeply intertwined with human civilization.

They noted that bottle gourds could be an essential food security crop, but there has not been enough research into them.

In quiet moments, he sits in the shade of the tree nursery, cutting up bottle gourd for the hens to peck.

One of the earliest cultivated plants in many parts of the Americas was grown for nonfood purposes: the bottle gourd, used as a container.

The other was a tunnel of dangling bottle gourds in the garden of the American gardener and writer Amy Goldman Fowler.