Details for: Ames 2803, Cucurbita pepo L., Ames 2803

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Cucurbita pepo L.

Top Name:

Ames 2803

Origin:

Developed – Colorado, United States

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

30 Apr 1984

Form Received:

Seed

Availability

This is historical information about this accession. It no longer exists and can not be requested.

There are no images for this accession.

Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Cucurbita pepo L.

Top Name:

Ames 2803

Origin:

Developed – Colorado, United States

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

30 Apr 1984

Form Received:

Seed

Source History

Developed

PRE September 1964.
Colorado, United States

Developer(s):

Hollar Seeds, Incorporated

Donated

30 April 1982.
New York, United States

Donor(s):

USDA, ARS

Accession Names and Identifiers

Ames 2803

Type: Site identifier

Group: AMES

NC-7 Research Numbers

USDA ARS NCRPIS

G 14269

Type: Site identifier

Group: GENEVA

Ids used by the North Eastern Plant Intro. Station; N. Y.

USDA, ARS

Narrative

Pale orange fruit selected from Royal Acorn. Fruits frist green and turn golden as they ripen. Consequently, the gold color can be used as an index of ripeness. Fruit 10.5 inches x 6.25 inches, 5 concave sides, 5 grooves each, a V between 2 rounded ridges. Rind hard stem 5 sided black horny flanged attachment. Harvested 9/19/64. Fruits seem much larger than regular Royal Acorn. Robson's trial seed came from Hollar Co. Rind 3/16. Flesh pale orange 5/8-3/4 fibrous.

Cucurbita pepo L.

Genus:

Cucurbita

Family:

Cucurbitaceae

Tribe:

Cucurbiteae

Nomen number:

12606

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 2:1010. 1753

Typification:

View in Linnean Typification Project

Verified:

02/17/2005 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Cucurbita pepo L. subsp. fraterna (L. H. Bailey) Lira et al. (4 active accession[s])
Cucurbita pepo L. subsp. gumala Teppner (0 active accession[s])
Cucurbita pepo L. subsp. ovifera (L.) D. S. Decker (0 active accession[s])
Cucurbita pepo L. subsp. ovifera (L.) D. S. Decker var. ovifera (L.) Harz (1 active accession[s])
Cucurbita pepo L. subsp. ovifera (L.) D. S. Decker var. ozarkana D. S. Decker (43 active accession[s])
Cucurbita pepo L. subsp. ovifera (L.) D. S. Decker var. texana (Scheele) Filov (14 active accession[s])
Cucurbita pepo L. subsp. pepo (3 active accession[s])
Cucurbita pepo L. var. pepo (0 active accession[s])

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Cucurbita galeottii Cogn.
Cucurbita mammeata Molina

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	bitter bottle gourd	1	Hamid, S. et al. 1995. Medicinal plants of family Cucurbitaceae of Pakistan (part II). Hamdard 38:96.
English	bush squash	1	Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
English	marrow	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English	pumpkin	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English	squash	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
French	citrouille	2	Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7 GEVES-SNES, Beaucouzé, France.
French	courge pepon	2	Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7 GEVES-SNES, Beaucouzé, France.
German	Gemüse-Kürbis	2	Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1340.
Italian	zucchino	2	International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
Spanish (Mexico)	calabaza	2	Lira Saade, R. & S. Montes Hernández. 1994. Cucurbits (Cucurbita spp.). In: Hernándo Bermejo, J. E. & J. León, eds., Neglected crops : 1492 from a different perspective. Plant Production and Protection Series No. 26. 63-77. Note: FAO, Rome, Italy.
Swedish	pumpa	2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Chinese	xi hu lu	2	Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Urdu (Pakistan)	ghia kaddu	2	Hamid, S. et al. 1995. Medicinal plants of family Cucurbitaceae of Pakistan (part II). Hamdard 38:96.

Annotations