Bibliography on jícaro, Crescentia cujete

When time and funding permit, each flower (each plant species) will have its own page, and its own PDF, and eventually its own PPT so that professors and students have plenty of material on Guatemala (and Honduras, etc) to study.

Heliconia adflexa, Coban, Guatemala, Hotel Monja Blanca, FLAAR, by Nicholas Hellmuth

This space is for flowers
we have recently found and photographed.

Reports by FLAAR Mesoamerica
on Flora & Fauna of Parque Nacional Yaxha Nakum Naranjo
Peten, Guatemala, Central America

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Bibliography on jícaro, Crescentia cujete

Jícaro, Crescentia cujete, like C. alata, is a recognized species due to its usefulness for making bowls. In addition, there are several studies that show that it’s useful to fight diseases caused by fungi. Like C. alata, C cujete is an important species for scientific research due to its diverse utilities for the human being and the ecosystem.

PDF, Articles, Books on Crescentia cujete

AGARWAL, M. and S. CHAUHAN
2015
Anti-mycobacterial potential of Crescentia cujete (Bignoniaceae). International Journal of Advanced Research in Botany. Vol. 1, No. 1. Pages 1-9.

Available Online:
www.arcjournals.org/pdfs/ijarb/v1-i1/1.pdf

EJELONU, B. C., LASISI, A. A., OLAREMU, A. G. and O. C. EJELONU
2011
The chemical constituents of calabash (Crescentia cujete). African Journal of Biotechnology. Vol. 10, No. 84. Pages 19631-19636.

Available Online:
www.academicjournals.org/article/article1380972423_Ejelonu%20et%20al.pdf

ESPITIA, J. E., DURÁN, H., FANDIÑO, J., DÍAZ, F. and H. A. GÓMEZ
2011
Química y biología del extracto etanólico del epicarpio de Crescentia cujete L. (totumo). Rev. Cubana Plant Med. Vol. 16, No. 4. Pages 337-346.

Available Online:
http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1028-47962011000400005

KNUDSEN, J. T. and L. TOLLSTEN
1995
Floral scent in bat-pollinated plants: a case of convergent evolution. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. No. 199. Pages 45-47.

Available Online:
https://watermark.silverchair.com/j.1095-8339.1995.tb00728.x.pdf...

NIEMBRO, A.
2004
Crescentia cujete L. Instituto de Ecología, Xalapa, Veracruz México. Pages 426-428.

Available Online:
https://rngr.net/publications/ttsm/species/PDF.2004-01-12.1046/at_download/file

Suggested webpages with photos and information on Crescentia cujete

http://orton.catie.ac.cr/repdoc/A0009s/A0009s145.pdf
Information.

www.arbolesornamentales.es/Crescentiacujete.htm
Information.

www.medicinatradicionalmexicana.unam.mx/monografia.php?l=3&t=Crescentia%20cujete&id=7659
Information.

http://eol.org/pages/578228/overview
Photos and map location.

http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Crescentia+cujete
Information and photos.

www.gbif.org/species/5415081
Map location.

www.tropicaldesigns.com/tta6.html
Photos and information.

First posted, January 2018