You can make bowls out of almost any gourd type. My favorite type to use are the Bushel Gourds. Bushel gourds are basically slightly flattened round gourds. Some varieties can grow to be very large, while others are medium sized. They make perfect bowls and baskets. They also make nice bird feeders, lidded boxes, lamp bases/shades, anything round.
People used gourd bowls (when they had just been started being made) for eating. Gourd bowls were also used to carry water and to drink from.
A gourd is made out of a hollowed out plant, aptly named 'a gourd.'
Generally, you don't eat a gourd - their flesh is hard and woody. Gourdss are grown for decorative purposes, and for hollowing out into bowls, scoops, drinking ladles, etc.
One could store whatever one wants to in a Gourd. However one may also choose to decorate their dried gourd, as they can create a number of items such as fruit bowls, drums and much more with a dried gourd.
The Guiro is made from a hollow gourd.
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Calabash
If allowed to thoroughly dry out, the pulp in the gourd evaporates, leaving only the hard, dried seeds inside. When shaken, such a gourd rattles - the basis of the percussion instrument called the "maraca".
Guiro
Melon is any variety of Cucumis melo.They are membersof the Gourd family, Cucurbitaceae.
Gourd
1. Bottle gourd 2. Snake gourd 3. Pointed gourd 4. Teasel gourd 5. Bitter gourd