Calabash, candle tree, and areca palm also have bat-pollinated flowers.
A good example is the large, hard-shelled, gourd-type fruit of the calabash (Crescentia) tree, which has been posited as an 'anachronistic' adaptation for seed dispersal by gomphotheres, large, elephant-like mammals that went extinct over 10,000 years ago (Janzen and Martin [1982]).
During your three-mile journey, look for local fruits such as colorful ackee, breadfruit and calabash dangling from the trees that arch over the water.
I would open my day at Calabash Tea.
"A field of colors" — strychnine blossoms, betel leaf and snapdragon, star fruit, pencil trees and black calabash — partially lit with grow lights and misted with indoor rain.
The moon watches Rona as "Husbandless, she / bends her will, [End Page 392] grabs / a calabash, heads off / through the ngaio trees / and mamaku ferns". Rona's response to the moon is both familiar and biting, as she replies, "Stuff you, moon, / boil your pea brain with pūhā" (8; italics original; pūhā is a sow thistle commonly used as a potherb).
FLUSHING Good Afternoon, Calabash Women A calabash is a tropical American tree of the bignonia family, related to the squash family, that bears a gourdlike fruit.
After prayers and songs beneath the shade of a neem tree, each villager lined up before Edward, dipped a branch into a calabash, and sprinkled him with water – symbolising the community cleansing his past.
Branches of cinnamon and pimento trees were splayed on work stations along with giant cocoa pods and calabash shells filled with allspice, bay leaf, nutmeg and mace: the perfect prelude to our next stop.
If hunger calls, eat fish fresh caught and fried on the spot, or save your appetite for the jerk snapper from Jack Sprat back at Calabash, and wash it down with juice squeezed from mangoes just plucked from nearby trees.
