Calabash.  In the science world, it is called Crescentia cujete.  It is known as calabacero in Spain; totumo in Colombia and Panama, mate in Ecuador; pate in Peru; jicaro in Mexico; higuera in Puerto Rico; and rum tree in Sri Lanka.

But most Filipinos call it Miracle Fruit.  The reason: it cures some diseases, even cancer. In General Santos City, a group of students from the Notre Dame of Dadiangas University found that “calabash extracts have the ability to prevent blood vessel growth and development.”  As such, it “could be used to help prevent the cancer cells in the human body.”