MULTILINGUAL MULTISCRIPT PLANT NAME DATABASE

Sorting Benincasa names

Species on this page ( A = names approved by most authorities, s = approved as synonyms) :

 

Note

Benincasa hispida (Thunb.) Cogn.

SYNONYM(S) : Benincasa cerifera Savi

BURMESE : Kyauk-hpayon.

CHINESE : Dong gua (Cantonese Tung kwa), Bai dong gua, Yin dong gua.

DANISH : Voksagurk.

DUTCH : Waskalebas.

ENGLISH : Wax gourd, Winter melon, Chinese winter melon, Chinese preserving melon, Tallow gourd.

FRENCH : Courge à la cire, Courge cireuse, Pastèque de Chine.

GERMAN: Wachskürbis, Prügelkürbis.

HINDI : Pethaa (Petha).

ITALIAN : Zucca della cera.

JAPANESE : Tougan.

MALAY : Kundor, Kundur (Indonesia).

NEPALESE : Kubiindo (Kubindo), Pethaa (Petha).

PORTUGUESE : Abóbora d'água, Calabaza branca.

SANSKRIT : Kushmanda.

SPANISH : Calabaza blanca, Calabaza china.

TAGALOG : Kandol.

THAI : Faeng, Fak, Mafak khom, Mafak mon, Mafak mon khom.

TURKISH : Mom kabagi.

VIETNAMESE : Bí dao, Bí bee.

 

Photograph by J.S. Siemonsma on PROSEA site.

Photographs at Cucurbitaceae, The Cucurbit Network (use generic index to get to selected genus).

 

Benincasa hispida (Thunb.) Cogn. (Longa Group)

SYNONYM(S) : Benincasa hispida (Thunb.) Cogn. f. longa

CHINESE : Chang dong gua, Da chang dong gua.

ENGLISH : Long-fruited winter gourd, Long winter gourd.

FRENCH : Courge cireuse longue.

Benincasa hispida (Thunb.) Cogn. (Longa Group) 'Xichangda'

CHINESE : Xi chang da dong gua.

ENGLISH : Long green winter gourd

FRENCH : Courge cireuse longue verte.

 

Photograph at Known-You Seed Co. Ltd. Taiwan.

Benincasa hispida (Thunb.) Cogn. (Oblongata Group)

SYNONYM(S) : Benincasa hispida (Thunb.) Cogn. f. oblongata

CHINESE : Yuan chang dong gua.

ENGLISH : Oblong winter gourd.

FRENCH : Courge cireuse oblongue.

Benincasa hispida (Thunb.) Cogn. (Oblongata Group) 'Cangcui'

CHINESE : Cang cui yuan chang dong gua, Yuan chang qing hei dong gua.

ENGLISH : Dark-green oblong winter gourd.

 

Photograph at Known-You Seed Co. Ltd. Taiwan.

Benincasa hispida (Thunb.) Cogn. (Oblongata Group) 'Huipi'

CHINESE : Hui pi yuan chang dong gua.

ENGLISH : Ash gourd, White gourd, Ash pumpkin, Ash oblong winter gourd, Silver winter gourd.

GERMAN: Weißer Kürbis.

PORTUGUESE : Calabaza branca.

SPANISH : Calabaza blanca.

 

 

Photograph at Known-You Seed Co. Ltd. Taiwan.

Benincasa hispida (Thunb.) Cogn. (Rotundata Group)

SYNONYM(S) : Benincasa hispida (Thunb.) Cogn. f. rotundata

CHINESE : Yuan dong gua.

ENGLISH : Round-fruited winter gourd, Round winter gourd.

FRENCH : Courge cireuse ronde.

 

Photograph at Known-You Seed Co. Ltd. Taiwan.

Benincasa hispida (Thunb.) Cogn. var. chiehqua How

SYNONYM(S) : Benincasa cerifera Savi var. chiehqua (How) C.Y. Wu & S.K. Chen

CHINESE : Mao gua (Cantonese Mo kwa), Jie gua (Cantonese Jiet kwa).

ENGLISH : Fuzzy gourd, Fuzzy melon, Hairy gourd, Hairy melon, Hairy squash, Hairy cucumber, Jointed gourd.

JAPANESE : Heariimeron.

MALAY : Kundor panjang.

 

Photograph at ACCE$$ to A$IA VEGETABLE$ Thesaurus.

Photographs at Cucurbitaceae, The Cucurbit Network (use generic index to get to selected genus).

 

 

Note

 

Cultivar groups are rather vague. We based ours on Taiwanese cultivars. Dutch and German horticulturists have come up with other group names. (Fuzzy Gourd Group), (Wax Gourd Group), (Ridged Winter Melon Group), and (Unridged Winter Melon Group). According to our present understanding the first 2 would correspond to all the cultivars within Benincasa hispida (Thunb.) Cogn. var. chiehqua How and Benincasa hispida (Thunb.) Cogn. respectively. This would leave "Ridged" and "Unridged" to include or exclude what exactly ? We believe that Latin or latinised names should be included in Group names rather than English names. Latin can then be translated back into any language where or when relevant but the standard applying to wild plants would be maintained for international exchanges of cultivated crops.

REFERENCES
General Bibliography

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REFERENCES
Complementary / Specific

 

ACCE$$ to A$IA VEGETABLE$ Thesaurus, 1997, Institute for Horticultural Development, Knoxfield, Agriculture Victoria, Dept. Natural Resources & Environment, Victoria, Australia. < http://www.nre.vic.gov.au/trade/asiaveg/thes-34.htm >

Andres Thomas C., 1999 - 2002, The Cucurbitaceae - Benincasa, The Cucurbit Network. < http://www.cucurbit.org/family.html >

Mabberley D.J. 1997, The Plant-Book : a Portable Dictionary of the Vascular Plants, 2d Edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.

USDA, ARS, 2000, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN). [Online Database] National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Available: www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxdump.pl?benincasa (01 May 2000). (A number of languages, some romanised, Latin with authority names)

Wiersema J. H. & León B. 1999, World Economic Plants : a Standard Reference. CRC Press LLC.

Xie Zongwa & Yu Youqin (Editors), 1996, Materia Medica, Chinese Terminology, Vol. 1, Renminweisheng Publishing House Beijing, China. (Latin with authority names and Chinese-simplified, text in Chinese).

Remaining to check : PROSEA, BEDEVIAN, HERKLOTS.

 

Contributors to this page (Personal communication) : Mandy Chew, Takako Asaoka.

 

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