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Sicana odorifera is a large, herbaceous perennial vine native to tropical South America, grown as an ornamental plant and for its sweet edible fruit. English names include cassabanana or casbanan, sikana, puttigel and musk cucumber.[1]

Cassabanana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Cucurbitales
Family:	Cucurbitaceae
Genus:	Sicana
Species:	S. odorifera
Binomial name
Sicana odorifera (Vell.) Naudin
Synonyms
Cucurbita evodicarpa Hassk. Cucurbita odorifera Vell.

The fast-growing, fleshy vine can reach 15 m or more in height, climbing with four-part adhesive tendrils. The large, hairy, palmately lobed leaves grow to 30 cm in width.[1]

The fruit is large, up to 60 cm long, with skin of variable color. The fruit has a delicious, melon-like taste when it is ripe, which needs high temperatures to ripen. The sweet, aromatic, yellow-to-orange flesh of the mature fruit is eaten raw or made into preserves. The immature fruit can be cooked as a vegetable.[1]

Cultivation

It is propagated by seeds. It is grown widely in the warm parts of Latin America, as well as by the Cajun people of the southern United States. It needs good drainage to grow well, and does well on an acidic mix of sand (or perlite) and rich compost.

References

External links

• Information from Fruits of Warm Climates

На других языках

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- [en] Sicana odorifera

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[es] Sicana odorifera

Sicana odorifera (Naud), conocida como curuguá o curuguay (voz guaraní) o cassabanana (en idioma inglés). En Brasil, es llamado cruá o melão caboclo (melón nativo), calabaza melona (en español), cajú, cajuba, o cajúa (Venezuela), pabi (Bolivia), pepino angolo (islas de las Antillas), cohombro (Guatemala), jirón (Ecuador), melocoton de costa (Costa Rica, sobre todo en su estado de legumbre fresca o encurtido), calabaza de olor.[1] Planta trepadora herbácea, típica enredadera cucurbitácea perenne, de hasta 15 metros de altura. Es de tallo anguloso, surcado, pubescente en las partes jóvenes; tiene zarcillos; hojas orbiculares de 12 a 24 cm. de largo y del mismo ancho, onduladas, nervadas, dentadas, glabras y con las lobulaciones profundas; flores campanuladas, solitarias, axilares, corola carnosa amarillo naranja.

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[ru] Сикана душистая

Сика́на души́стая, или Кассабана́на[источник не указан 2304 дня] (лат. Sicana odorifera) — крупная травянистая лиана семейства Тыквенные, культивируемая ради съедобных плодов.

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