Description:
Its fruit, chayote (chayotli Nahuatl, spiny squash), 1 also called chayote, tayota, guatilla or guatila, has a color ranging from dark green to light green or light yellow almost white. When tender has a shiny shell and hard consistency. You may be covered with spines or not. Chayote boneless looks smoother and may have fewer cracks than the spiny chayote. It is a climbing plant native to the Americas, who lives and bear fruit for several years. Each squash has a wide, flat seed, called Pip, who is also edible pulp. Chayotes commonly are small, though some weigh up to 500 grams.

Terminology:
The name chayote Nahuatl (chayotli) means pumpkin worms. According to the INCAP (Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama), Venezuela is known as chayote, in Peru is called cayote and gourds, in Guatemala and El Salvador is known as huisquil, Panama, Nicaragua and Costa Rica is called Chayote squash and Honduras and Colombia: guatila (inside) or cider (in the coffee) and in Brazil is called Xuxu.