Cucurbita foetidissimaKunth

Buffalo Gourd

WFO wfo-0000629071 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Cucurbita foetidissima, photographed by Dee Shea Himes
fig. a Dee Shea Himes, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205187174
Cucurbita foetidissima, photographed by Steve Addison
fig. b Steve Addison, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204157735
Cucurbita foetidissima, photographed by Martin Havran
fig. c Martin Havran, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204892052
Cucurbita foetidissima, photographed by bmasinton
fig. d bmasinton, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 203894243
Cucurbita foetidissima, photographed by Andrew Tree
fig. e Andrew Tree, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201327638
Cucurbita foetidissima, photographed by Andrew Tree
fig. f Andrew Tree, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201328730
Cucurbita foetidissima, photographed by bmasinton
fig. g bmasinton, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 200803197
Cucurbita foetidissima, photographed by Jacob Dubi
fig. h Jacob Dubi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200859899

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Flowering n = 587 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 587 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cucumis foetidissimus Hemsl.
  • Cucumis perennis E.James
  • Cucurbita foetidissima var. foetidissima
  • Cucurbita perennis (E.James) A.Gray
  • Ozodycus perennis (E.James) Raf.
  • Pepo foetidissima (Kunth) Britton

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.