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Cucurbita moschata - Butternut

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Squash is an annual climbing plant that can produce stems up to 5 metres long. These stems tend to sprawl over the ground, though they also climb into the surrounding vegetation where they support themselves by means of tendrils. The plant is widely cultivated, especially in warm temperate and tropical areas, mainly for its edible fruit, though it is also an important leaf vegetable in Africa, supplies a popular edible seed and has a wide range of medicinal uses.

Uses

Parts Used

Chemical Composition

The lipids isolated from the seeds included glycerides, sterol esters, phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylinositol. [1]

Common names

Language Common name
Kannada Sihi kumbala kaayi
Hindi Halwa kaddu
Malayalam Kumpalam
Tamil Pucani
Telugu Gummadi
Marathi NA
Gujarathi NA
Punjabi NA
Kashmiri NA
Sanskrit
English Butternut Pumpkin, Butternut Squash


Properties

Reference: Dravya - Substance, Rasa - Taste, Guna - Qualities, Veerya - Potency, Vipaka - Post-digesion effect, Karma - Pharmacological activity, Prabhava - Therepeutics.

Dravya

Rasa

Guna

Veerya

Vipaka

Karma

Prabhava

Habit

Identification

Leaf

Kind Shape Feature
Simple Prostrate Internodes to 10 cm, scabrous. Leaves 5-7-lobed, 16 x 24 cm, velvety, lobes acute; petiole to 15 cm

[2]

Flower

Type Size Color and composition Stamen More information
Unisexual 8 cm wide pale yellow Stamens 3 Flowers Season is June - August

Fruit

Type Size Mass Appearance Seeds More information
Stamens 3 6 cm Fruit oblong, contracted in the middle seeds numerous, to 12 x 8 mm {{{6}}}

Other features

List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used

Where to get the saplings

Mode of Propagation

How to plant/cultivate

The plant can be grown from the temperate zone to the tropics, so long as there is a warm growing season of at least 150 days[3]

Commonly seen growing in areas

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References

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