Decorating gourds for seasonal displays Yardsmart

Courier News (Elgin, IL) | November 15, 2006| | Copyright

Native American-inspired gourd pot by Deborah Easley.|Double Happiness, gourd art by Deborah Easley.

The miracle of DNA has finally solved the age-old question: How did bottle gourds come to America? This plant has no wild progenitors in the Western Hemisphere. The gourd grown by early cultures in Florida, Mexico and Peru is a variant of the African species. Being buoyant, it was believed gourds floated across the Atlantic to our southern coast and from there traveled inland.

Recent work by a team of scientists from the Smithsonian Institution and four other universities studied the DNA of the ...

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