[Sca-cooks] Pumpkins?
margaret
m.p.decker at att.net
Sat Oct 22 19:17:13 PDT 2005
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
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