Its fruit is a small purple inedible gourd. The pungi is traditionally made from a dried bottle gourd. They are made from various materials including bamboo, rattan, nito ferns, and bottle gourd. The eight categories are silk, bamboo, wood, stone, metal, clay, gourd and skin. It is a thick kheer made with milk and bottle gourd. The name comes from the hollow gourd from which it is traditionally drunk. Also at this time, reservoirs were made of glass, pottery, or a type of gourd. Syringes of gourd and clay were used to inject the fluid. "Lau chingri", a dish prepared with bottle gourd and prawn, is popular in West Bengal. Bryonia is a genus of flowering plants in the gourd family. The remaining six materials in this system are metal, silk, skin, stone, gourd, and clay. They also have occasional hunts, like gourd, egg and chest hunting. The peach, gourd, and scroll are symbols of longevity. The music is accompanied by a scrape gourd, the guiro. The bottle gourd is a symbol of the Xian immortals.