Refers to the plant Lagenaria siceraria var. hispida, whose fruit is used as a vegetable or dried to make containers.
夕顔の実を乾燥させて、ひょうたんを作ります。
We dry the fruit of the bottle gourd to make a calabash.
夕顔は夏に白い花を咲かせます。
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
夕顔は夜に大きな白い花を咲かせる。
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.