Lagenaria

https://www.sbs.com.au/language/punjabi/en/article/indian-australian-family-smashes-record-with-their-enormous-gourd/maqjkr64c

There are two main puzzles:

Firstly, what is the natural mode of dispersal of seeds of Lagenaria spp., including the wild ancestor of the domestic Lagenaria siceraria?

Secondly, how did L. siceraria come to be one of the few domestic plants shared among Africa, the Americas, and Asia, even before Europeans and Africans reached America?

https://impactfactor.org/PDF/IJPPR/9/IJPPR,Vol9,Issue7,Article26.pdf

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3119267/

Posted on October 30, 2024 02:26 AM by milewski