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Presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of The Society for Economic Botany, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, June 5–8, 1967.
Observations of Curaçao habitat and uses were made during field work under National Institutes of Health grant R 01, CA 07966– 01, –02, –03.
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Morton, J.F. The calabash (Crescentia cujete) in folk medicine. Econ Bot 22, 273–280 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02861961
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