Cucurbitaceae FAMILY
Sechium tacaco
Sechium tacaco
Edibility
3/5
Medicinal
0/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Cultivation Details
HabitPerennial Climber
Growth—
Not known
Propagation
Seed - traditionally, the seed is sown by setting a whole mature fruit in a rich, loose leaf mould with the spiny end up and almost showing at the surface[1]. Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Sechium+tacaco>
Pollinators
Data unavailable
References
- [1]Inventory of Seeds and Plants Imported Vol. 21 — USDA Government Printing Office; Washington DC. · 1911 · http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org ↩︎Details of seeds imported for trials by the United States Department of Agriculture in the last quarter of 1909, often detailing the uses of the plant and various other miscellaneous information. It can be downloaded from the Internet.
- [2]Dictionary of Economic Plants. — Uphof. J. C. Th. · Weinheim · 1959 · ISBN - ↩︎An excellent and very comprehensive guide but it only gives very short descriptions of the uses without any details of how to utilize the plants. Not for the casual reader.
- [3]Mansfeld's Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Plants — http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:4292127278597336 ↩︎Terse details of a huge range of useful plants.