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Buffalo gourd

Cucurbita foetidissima

Photo by JackGraham
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Field Notes

Notes:

Everyone I know calls this a pepper gourd/ pepper squash. Here are more alternate names, calabazilla, chilicote, coyote gourd, fetid gourd, fetid wild pumpkin, Missouri gourd, prairie gourd, stinking gourd, wild gourd, and wild pumpkin.

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Cucurbita foetidissima, Buffalo Gourd

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PublishedJuly 8, 2014

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