Sicana

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Sicana in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Sicana (Peruvian name). Cucurbitaceae. Annual slender subglabrous tall-climbing vines, used out-of-doors in the S. for ornament: lvs. palmately 5-9-lobed, very glabrous and shiny; tendrils 3-5-cleft, the branches adhering at the tip: fls. rather large, yellow, monoecious, all solitary; calyx-tube short-campanulate, 5-lobed, the lobes ovate-lanceolate, recurved; corolla inflated-campanulate, 5-lobed above the middle, the lobes broad-ovate; stamens 3 in the male fl.: fr. large, fleshy, many-seeded, fragrant and edible.—Three species, Trop. Amer. Allied to Cucurbita, but differing in having wide-spreading or reflexed calyx-lobes and the anthers not united. S. atropurpurea, Andre. Has shorter subpyriform, brilliant violet-purple frs., and purple-tinted under surfaces of the lvs. Perhaps a form of S. odorifera. Uruguay. R.H. 1894:108.—S. spherica. Hook. f. Fls. large and spreading, more like those of Cucurbita: lvs. reniform, 3-5-lobed: fr. globose, size of a small orange. Jamaica. B.M. 7109. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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