- Scientific name
- Cucurbita foetidissima
- Common name
- Calabacilla
- Kingdom / family
- Cucurbitaceae
- Genus
- Cucurbita
- Category
- plantae
- Primary role
- crop
- Crop type
- vegetable
- Growth habit
- long-lived monoecious perennial vine; deeply penetrating roots 4–5 m long
- Temperature
- 20 to 30 °C
- pH
- 6 to 7
- Precipitation
- 400 to 600 mm
- Soil texture
- 3
- Light
- 3/10
- Native regions
- ["Arizona","Arkansas","California","Colorado","Iowa","Kansas","Mexico Central","Mexico Northeast","Mexico Northwest","Mexico Southwest","Missouri","Nebraska","Nevada","New Mexico","Oklahoma","Texas","Utah","Wyoming","USA (Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming); Mexico (Aguascalientes, Baja California Norte, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Colima, Durango, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México State, Michoacán, Nuevo Leon, Querétaro, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Zacatecas)","Global","Middle America","North America"]
- Invasive regions
- ["Florida","Germany","Illinois","Indiana","Kentucky","Michigan","Ohio","Virginia","Wisconsin","Austria","AT","TW"]