Calabash Tree Small 271×320 Medium 542×640 Large 867×1024 Download Tiff Original 2031×2400 | (1.7 MB) Description A tree of tropical America bearing a gourd like fruit. The hard shell of which is applied to many domestic uses and is often elaborately carved or painted. Keywords coconut, fruit, gourd Galleries Trees: C Source: William & Robert Chambers Encyclopaedia - A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1881) Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman
