[Sca-cooks] Pumpkins?

[margaret]

Opo (also referred to a a long calabash) is definitely a bottle gourd.  It 
may also appear in Italian markets as cucuzza.  Bottle gourds do vary widely 
in size, shape and color but are one species.

Bear

> Our (Betty and mine) current guess is the White Flowered Gourd, Laganaria 
> Sicreia (sp?). There is a gourd called "Opo" available in Chinese grocery 
> stores which we think is probably Laganaria, but we aren't sure.
>
> The opo we have cooked tasted rather like zuccini. But most of our 
> familiar gourds and pumpkins are a single species--C. Pepo--so it may well 
> be that different varieties of Laganaria differ just as they do.
> -- 
> David/Cariadoc