Crescentia alata ?

# Species- Seed plants (families)‎ > ‎A---L (families & genera)‎ > ‎B‎ > ‎Bignoniaceae‎ > ‎Crescentia‎ > ‎

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Fruit tree id: amba ghat, Maharashtra : 8 posts by 5 authors. Attachments (1)

Pl id the fruit tree found in amba ghat, sahyadri forest maharashtra.

FWD from my friend.

Could be Crescentia cujete
i have some doubt as to these being: Crescentia cujete because i have almost never seen crease or indentation in the surface of the fruits. could be something else?

a nice paper from delhi about calabash trees and where one can find thme in delhi

http://www1.nii.res.in/pdf/calabash.pdf

I go with ...

Pl. check images at Crescentia alata Kunth

To me looks different from images at Crescentia cujete

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