Cucurbitaceae
229 edible species
Family of climbing vines producing cucumbers, squashes, melons, and pumpkins with large leaves and tendrils.
Green-stripe cushaw
Edible: Fruit, Flowers, Young stems, Seeds
Calabaza pipiana
Edible: Seeds
Coyote melon
Edible: Seeds ?
Coyote gourd, Fingerleaf gourd
Edible: Root, Seeds, Caution
Edible: Seeds
Malabar gourd, Fig-leaf gourd
Edible: Fruit, Seeds, Flowers, Tips, Leaves, Vegetable
Buffalo gourd
Edible: Root, Seeds, Oil, Flowers
Edible: Fruit, Seeds, Caution
Bitter pumpkin
Edible: Fruit
Pumpkin, Winter squash
Edible: Fruit, Leaves, Seeds, Flowers, Vegetable
Pumpkin, Winter squash
Edible: Fruit, Leaves, Seeds, Vegetable, Flowers
Coyote Gourd.
Marrow, Pumpkin
Edible: Fruit, Seeds, Leaves, Vegetable, Flowers
Acorn squash, Fordhook squash, Ornamental gourd, Pattypan squash
Edible: Fruit, Vegetable
Edible: Fruit
Cuchinito
Edible: Fruit, Vegetable
Cutleaf cyclanthera
Edible: Leaves, Fruit
Artillery cyclanthera, Exploding cucumber
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Leaves
Calabash gourd
Edible: Leaves, Fruit, Flowers, Vegetable
Edible: Leaves, Fruit
Edible: Fruit, Leaves
Striped cucumber, Native Bryony
Edible: Leaves, Fruit, Caution, Vegetable
Squirting cucumber
Edible: Seeds - oil, Caution, Medicine
Wild cucumber
Edible: Caution
Coulter's balsam apple
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Buds, Fruit
Sequa, Antidote vine
Edible: Seeds - oil, Seeds
Jobota chestnut
Edible: Seeds - oil, Caution - medicine
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Leaves, Young fruit, Shoots
Sweet tea vine
Edible: Leaves, Vegetable, Leaves - tea
Edible: Leaves - tea
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Seeds
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Seed
Edible: Fruit
Stinking kedrostis
Edible: Fruit, Leaves, Vegetable, Tubers, Rhizomes
Edible: Fruit, Tuber, Root
Edible: Leaves, Fruit, Vegetable
Dwarf kedrostis
Edible: Root, Caution
Edible: Leaves, Vegetable, Fruit
Edible: Leaves
Bottle Gourd
Edible: Fruit, Leaves, Oil, Seed, Shoots
Loofah
Edible: Flowers, Fruit, Leaves, Oil, Seed, Shoots
Bristly luffa, Bitter sponge gourd
Edible: Fruit, Caution
Sponge cucumber
Edible: Fruit
Bigroot, California manroot
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Fruit
Melancia-do-campo
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit ?
Cerrado watermelon
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit
Ococa
Edible: Fruit
Creeping cucumber
Edible: Fruit, Leaves
Mexican sour gherkin
Edible: Fruit
Gam
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Fruit
Bitter gourd
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Fruit, Leaves, Seeds, Vegetable
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit
Madras pea pumpkin, Chirati, Rough bryony
Edible: Leaves, Fruit, Seeds
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit, Vegetable
Round-melon, Squash-melon
Edible: Fruit, Seeds, Vegetable
Edible: Fruit, Leaves
Edible: Fruit
Choko, Chayote
Edible: Fruit, Leaves, Seeds, Roots, Vegetable
Mirera
Edible: Leaves, Shoots
Tacaco
Edible: Fruit, Leaves, Shoots, Seeds
Cassabanana
Edible: Fruit, Vegetable
Bur cucumber, Angle cucumber
Edible: Fruit, Leaves
Star cucumber, Angled cucumber
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Leaves
Smallflower bur cucumber
Edible: Leaves
Bur cucumber
Edible: Fruit, Caution
Lo han kuo
Edible: Fruit, Flowers - tea
Edible: Fruit, Vegetable, Roots, Leaves
Fluted pumpkin, Fluted gourd
Edible: Leaves, Seeds, Twigs, Shoots, Seeds - oil, Vegetable
Telfairia nut, Oyster nut, African pumpkin
Edible: Seeds, Leaves, Seeds - oil, Vegetable
Edible: Leaves, Vegetable
Red hailstone, Manchu Tuber Gourd
Edible: Fruit, Leaves, Root
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Leaves, Root, Fruit
Edible: Leaves
Ribbed orange gourd
Edible: Fruit
Snake gourd
Edible: Leaves, Fruit, Vegetable
Snake Gourd
Edible: Fruit, Leaves, Shoots