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Apple Gourds Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating
Days to Maturity: 100-120
Description: Vines bear 6- to 8-inch-tall by 4- to 6-inch-wide, 4- to 7 1/2-pound, mottled apple-green fruit of varying shape and size similar to an apple. Turns brown when dried. Also known as 'Big Apple'.

Snake Gourds Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating
Days to Maturity: 85-85
Description: 3-foot by 8-inch, mottled, light-green, edible fruit. Also known as Cucuzzi Italian.

Luffa Gourds Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
2 Ratings
Days to Maturity: 90-110
Description: Young, soft, green, 2-inch fruit are edible. Harvest 90 days or later for sponge or scrubbers.

Birdhouse Gourds Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating
Days to Maturity: 125-125
Description: Large, hard-skinned gourds can be made into birdhouses. Fruits are 10- to 12-inch by 14- to 16-inch, and tapered toward stem end with tan, smooth, hard shell. Also known as Dipper.

Long Handled Dipper Gourds Overall Rating: (3.5 Stars):
2 Ratings
Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Fruit with long, skinny, curving neck and rounded bulbous end. Can be cut and used as a ladle or dipper when dried.

Bushel Gourds Overall Rating: (3.0 Stars):
1 Rating
Days to Maturity: 135-135
Description: Large, bowl-shaped fruit are 18 inches or more in diameter.

Crown of Thorns Gourds Overall Rating: (3.0 Stars):
1 Rating
Days to Maturity: 100-100
Description: Small, cream-, orange-, yellow-, and green-striped fruit resemble scallop (patty-pan) squash, but with more-elongated spikes that give a crown-like look.

Turk's Turban Gourds Overall Rating: (3.0 Stars):
1 Rating
Days to Maturity: 95-100
Description: Actually a winter squash that's both beautiful and tasty. 8- to 10-inch diameter, 3- to 5-pound, brilliant orange-red fruit highlighted with orange, cream, white and dark-green stripes with prominent blossom end.

White Egg Gourds Overall Rating: (2.5 Stars):
2 Ratings
Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Small, white, egg-shaped gourd.

Speckled Swan Gourds Overall Rating: (2.3 Stars):
3 Ratings
Days to Maturity: 110-125
Description: 12- to 18-inch, bulbous fruits with throttled swan neck and smooth, dark-green shell speckled with white.

Aladdin's Turban Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Small with striped green, yellow and red turban.

Angled Luffa Gourd Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 90-90
Description: Luffa acutangua. Vines bear yellow flowers and ridged, club-shaped fruit. Also known as 'Chinese Okra' and 'Thai Angled Luffa'. Immature fruit can be eaten like squash.

Autumn Wings Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 100-100
Description: 6- to 8-inch, straight or curved, yellow to white to green fruit with 5 or 6 double fins.

Bicolor Polar Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Small fruit with yellow top and green bottom.

Calabash Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 125-125
Description: 12-inch by 5-inch fruit.

Canteen Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Large, wheel-shaped 12-inch fruit.

Caveman's Club Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 125-125
Description: Vines bear deeply veined, oblong, green fruit with narrow, 10- to 16-inch handles, 8-inch bowls and wing-like projections. Best trellised for straight handles. Also known as 'Maranka', 'Dinosaur' and 'Cave Man's Club'.

Corsican Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 125-125
Description: 8- to 9-inch, by 3- to 4-inch, squat, saucer-shape, medium-green fruit turns tan when dry. Aka Sugar Gourd.

Corsican Canteen Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 125-125
Description: 3 1/2- by 7-inch fruit. New Mexican Native American origin.

Dipper Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 125-125
Description: 4-inch, oval fruit with round blossom-end and 12-inch handle. Also known as Birdhouse.

Flat Striped Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Small green and cream fruit.

Giant Bottle Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 110-110
Description: Rampant vines bear large, pale-green, hourglass-shaped fruit ripening to straw-colored. Also known as 'Water Jug', 'Bottle', 'Large Bottle' and 'Bird's Nest'.

Giant Bushel Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Smooth, round, 15-inch fruit.

Gooseneck Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Goose-shaped, hard-shelled, 12-by 6-inch, mottled green and white fruit.

Long Siphon Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Large fruit with hollow handle up to 26 inches long and 10-inch bottom.

Mini Red Turban Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 80-100
Description: Vines bear 6- to 8-inch fruit with scarlet turban and white body.

Miniature Bell Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Small, orange and green fruit.

Mini Bottle Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 125-125
Description: 5- to 8-inch miniature version of 'Birdhouse' gourd. Also known as 'Tiny Bottle' and 'Baby Bottle'.

Nest Egg Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Fruit resembles white goose egg. Also known as 'Japanese Nest Egg'.

Orange Warted Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Small, orange, warty fruit.

Orange Ball Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Small, round, orange fruit.

Penguin Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Large, powder-horn-shaped fruit.

Shenot Crown of Thorns Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 95-100
Description: 4- to 5-inch fruit with thorn-like projections curved toward the blossom end. Fruit is white, yellow, orange and green, solid or stripped.

Siphon Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 125-125
Description: Vines up to 5 feet bear 5-inch fruit with bulging bottom and long curved neck. Trellis to keep neck straight.

Small Warted Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Small, round, green and orange fruit with bumpy surface.

Speckled Apple Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 110-110
Description: Large, apple-shaped green fruit with some white splotches. Fruits sit on four points with dimples between.

Spoon Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 100-100
Description: Hard-shelled fruit with solid and bicolor types and variously curved, slender handles.

Striped Crown of Thorns Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Small fruit with multicolored stripes.

Striped Pear Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Striped, pear-shaped fruit.

Crafter's Mix Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 120-150
Description: Mix of 'Giant Birdhouse', 'Big Dipper' and 'Corsican' gourds.

Hedgehog Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 85-85
Description: Actually a cucumber relative. Small, striped, spiny fruit looks great mixed with ornamental gourds. Will keep for several months.

Harrowsmith Select Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 95-95
Description: Mix of mostly warted pears, dumplings, patty pans, cheeses and other shapes in a diverse range of colors.

Tennessee Dancing Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 93-93
Description: Vigorous vines bear 2- to 3-inch green- and white-striped hard-shelled gourds drying to tan. Also known as 'Tennessee Spinning'.

Bowl Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 100-120
Description: Vines bear round gourds with flattened tops and bottoms 8- to 10-inches wide and 4- to 5-inches tall that are ideal for making bowls or baskets.

Bule Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 100-120
Description: Unique hard-shelled French gourd. 15- to 35-foot vines bear apple-shaped, 6- to 8-inch-tall by 5- to 6-inch-wide fruit covered with small warts or tooth-like bumps.

Ten Commandments Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 95-95
Description: Vines bear softball-sized fruit with five pair of prongs pointing toward the blossom end. Mixture of bright-striped, mottled, multicolored fruits.

Bottle Martinhouse Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 90-110
Description: Similar to 'Birdhouse' but with slightly longer neck.

Hope Rattle Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 100-120
Description: Lagenaria siceraria. Traditional Native American crop. Vines produce 15 to 25 brilliant-orange, round fruit. Can be eaten when still green and sweet or allowed to mature for ornamental use.

Thai Bottle Gourd Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Edible gourd from Southeast Asia. Vines bear bottle-shaped fruit picked at 4 to 6 inches. Used like summer squash. Disease-resistant. Seeds used to make a vegetable curd.

Serpente di Sicilia Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Edible gourd. Italian heirloom. Vines bear long, slender, light green fruit. Used like zucchini.

Orange Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Heirloom. Fruit resemble ripe orange.

Small Apple Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Heirloom. Vines bear small, apple-shaped fruit.

Small Spoon Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Heirloom. Vines bear small, orange- and green-striped, spoon-shaped fruit.

Verruqueuse Africaine Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Vines bear small, warty fruit. Also known as 'African Warty'.

Chinese Miniature Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 100-100
Description: Vines bear 3-inch, 4- to 5-ounce, edible, orange fruit that resemble small pumpkin.

Early Green Skin Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 60-60
Description: Edible Asian bottle gourd. Vines bear white flowers and light-green-skinned fruit that should be harvested before maturity, about 8 to 10 inches long and 3 to 4 inches wide.

Long Opo Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 90-90
Description: Edible Asian bottle gourd. Vines bear tender, sweet, cylindrical, bottle-shaped, smooth-skinned, bright-green fruit best harvested when about 15 inches long. Also known as 'Long Upo'.

Miniature Bottle Gourd Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 95-95
Description: Ornamental bottle gourd. Vines bear 1-foot, bottle shaped fruit.

Calabash Long Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 100-100
Description: Edible calabash-type gourd. Vines bear green-skinned, bat-shaped fruit best harvested immature at about 12 to 14 inches long.

Calabash Round Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 100-100
Description: Calabash-type gourd. Vines round, white fruit that is edible if picked before skin hardens. Flesh from mature fruit is dried in strips for kampyo for sushi and other dishes.

Mokwa Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 80-80
Description: Asian jointed gourd or hairy melon. Also known as 'Mao gua'. Vines bear fuzzy, light-green-skinned, round or cylindrical fruit best harvested soon after the flowers fall off or when they are about 6 inches long. Peeled fruit at steamed, stir-fried or braised.

Short Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 80-80
Description: Smooth-skinned sponge luffa gourd. Vines bear dark-green, slightly ridged fruit. Young fruit are cooked or used in salad. Buds, shoots and young leaves are also edible.

Rama Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 72-72
Description: Early, hybrid, ridge luffa gourd. vines bear 10- to 12-inch edible fruit that can be eaten raw like a cucumber, or in salads and stir-fries.

Wooly Bear Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 85-85
Description: Cucumis dipsaceus. Low-growing vines bear small, soft, bright-green, elongated, spiny fruit. Shelf-life shorter than hard-skinned gourds once harvested.

Edible Ace Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Edible luffa gourd. Vines bear smooth-skinned, cylindrical, 8- to 12-inch by 3-inch, dark green fruit with white flesh.

Smooth Beauty Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Edible luffa gourd. Vines bear 8- to 12-inch fruit with light green skin and white flesh.

Jupiter Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Hybrid edible luffa gourd. Vines bear 12- to 15-inch, thin-skinned, dark green fruit.

Muop Huong Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Edible luffa gourd from Vietnam. Vines bear green-skinned, white-fleshed fruit up to 24 inches long but best harvested at 15 to 20 inches before seeds form.

Green Glory Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Hybrid angled luffa. Vines bear ridged, 16- to 20-inch, dark green fruit with white flesh.

Asian Pride Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Hybrid edible angled luffa gourd. Vines bear ridged, 15- to 18-inch, green fruit with white flesh.

Smooth Boy Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Edible luffa gourd. Vines bear large green fruit.

Extra Long Smooth Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Edible luffa gourd. Vines bear 30- to 40-inch by 2-inch, dark-green skinned fruit with white flesh.

Southern Winner Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Edible luffa gourd from southern China. Vines bear dark-green skinned, white-fleshed fruit best harvested at 12 to 18 inches.

Summer Long Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Edible angled luffa gourd. Vines bear ridged, 12- to 24-inch by 2-inch, green-skinned, white-fleshed fruit.

Lucky Boy Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Edible angled luffa gourd. Vines bear ridged, dark-green skinned, white-fleshed fruit that's shorter and fatter than most angled luffa gourds.

Long EX Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Tropical Asian snake gourd or serpent gourd harvested young and used like edible luffa gourds. Vines bear 10- to 20-inch, green-skinned fruit with white stripes.

India Short Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Tropical Asian snake gourd or serpent gourd harvested young and used like edible luffa gourds. Vines bear 12-inch by 2 1/2-inch, light greenish-white fruit with green-striped shoulders.

Extra Long Dancer Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Tropical Asian snake gourd or serpent gourd harvested young and used like edible luffa gourds. Vines bear 4-foot, green fruit.

Snaky Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Hybrid tropical Asian snake gourd or serpent gourd harvested young and used like edible luffa gourds. Vines bear 18-inch by 1 1/2-inch, green fruit with white stripes.

White Glory Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Hybrid tropical Asian snake gourd or serpent gourd harvested young and used like edible luffa gourds. Vines bear 15-inch by 1 1/2-inch, white-skinned fruit.

Thai Serpent Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Tropical Asian snake gourd. Attractive vines bear long green fruit with white stripes.

Extra Long Handled Dipper Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Vines bear fruit with 3-foot or longer handles and 5- to 8-inch bowls.

Green Splendour Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 67-67
Description: Hybrid luffa gourd. Harvest for eating when 9 to 12 inches long, or grow to maturity for sponge harvest.

Prickles Gourds Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 85-85
Description: Golf-ball-sized ornamental gourd with long green spines.
 
 
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