Refers to the plant Lagenaria siceraria var. hispida, whose fruit is used as a vegetable or dried to make containers.
We dry the fruit of the bottle gourd to make a calabash.
The bottle gourd blooms white flowers in summer.
Colloquial name for the moonflower (Ipomoea alba), a night-blooming morning glory relative. Often distinguished from 夜顔 (the true moonflower) in botanical contexts.
See also: ヨルガオ
The moonflower blooms large white flowers at night.
Standard kanji spelling for both the bottle gourd and the moonflower.
Katakana spelling, often used in botanical or culinary contexts.
From 夕 (evening) + 顔 (face), referring to the flowers that bloom in the evening.