Pumpkin flowers: Apricot yellow, monoecious, solitary. Corolla lobes of male flowers are large, and the apex is long and sharp; Female calyx lobes leaflike; Stigma III, swollen, cleft. The flower stalk is about 30 cm long. Receptacle is green and pentagonal bell-shaped. Petals, receptacle and corolla can all be eaten. Peel off the flower stalk, the surface of the receptacle and the flower core, and the rest can be eaten.

Pumpkin flowers is both a vegetable and a medicine. It has the auxiliary functions of clearing away damp-heat, eliminating swelling and removing blood stasis, resisting and preventing cancer, and treating jaundice, dysentery, cough, carbuncle conjunctivitis, mastitis and other inflammations, and is often used as health food. Practice has proved that its pollen can eliminate fatigue, enhance athletes' fighting spirit, make the elderly regain their youthful vitality, make children grow up wisdom, and make the weak and sick recover as soon as possible. It has a certain auxiliary effect on anemia, chronic constipation, large intestine diseases, hypertension, headache, stroke and other diseases in children, and can also help regulate the nervous state and improve insomnia. Rutin also has the auxiliary functions of promoting blood vessel and heart function, promoting blood coagulation and preventing bleeding.