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Details for: G 32997,
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne subsp.
maxima
, Blue Hubbard
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Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne subsp.
maxima
Top Name:
Blue Hubbard
Origin:
Donated – New York, United States
Maintained:
Northeast Regional Plant Introduction Station (NE9)
Received by NPGS:
1961
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
Backup Location:
National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation
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25 count
G 32997 12GI SD
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne subsp.
maxima
Top Name:
Blue Hubbard
Origin:
Donated – New York, United States
Maintained:
Northeast Regional Plant Introduction Station (NE9)
Received by NPGS:
1961
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
Source History
Donated
1961.
New York, United States
Donor(s):
Joseph Harris Company, Inc.
Accession Names and Identifiers
Blue Hubbard
Type: Unverified name
NSL 32997
Type: Site identifier
NSL 5246
Type: Site identifier
Narrative
Info. from Harris Co. 1959 cat. -- 110 days. Developed and grown by us, this extra lg, heavy-yielding strain is the truest most uniform stock we know. The fruit is an attrac- tive bl gray color, rough and rugged, and grows to enormous size Flesh is thick, deep yel. clr and fine flavor and texture. This is a profitable farm crop due to high demand. Good for gard. use due to heavy yield and excellent storage qualities.
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne subspp.
maxima
Genus:
Cucurbita
Family:
Cucurbitaceae
Tribe:
Cucurbiteae
Nomen number:
311569
Comment:
or
Cucurbita maxima
Banana, Hubbard, Mammoth, and Turban Groups
Verified:
06/19/1991
by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne
(831 active accession[s])
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne subsp.
andreana
(Naudin) Filov
(6 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Autonym(s)
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne var.
maxima
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne var.
turbaniformis
(M. Roem.) L. H. Bailey
Cucurbita turbaniformis
M. Roem.
Common names
Language
Name
Alternate name
note
seq
Citation
English
banana squash
1
Nee, M.
1990. The domestication of
Cucurbita
(Cucurbitaceae). Econ. Bot. 44(3 suppl.):55-68.
English
buttercup squash
1
Nee, M.
1990. The domestication of
Cucurbita
(Cucurbitaceae). Econ. Bot. 44(3 suppl.):55-68.
English
giant pumpkin
1
Nee, M.
1990. The domestication of
Cucurbita
(Cucurbitaceae). Econ. Bot. 44(3 suppl.):55-68.
English
Hubbard squash
1
Nee, M.
1990. The domestication of
Cucurbita
(Cucurbitaceae). Econ. Bot. 44(3 suppl.):55-68.
English
mammoth pumpkin
1
Savage, J. A. et al.
2015. The making of giant pumpkins: how selective breeding changed the phloem of
Cucurbita maxima
from source to sink. Plant Cell Environm. 38:1543-1554.
DOI:
10.1111/pce.12502
.
Note:
this study examined vascular anatomy and physiology of three varieties (Atlantic giants, Mammoths and Hubbard) of
Cucurbita maxima
to elucidate fruit growth limits
English
turban squash
1
Nee, M.
1990. The domestication of
Cucurbita
(Cucurbitaceae). Econ. Bot. 44(3 suppl.):55-68.
English
winter squash
1
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
French
courge commune
2
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
French
giraumon
2
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
French
pâtisson
2
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
French
potiron
2
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German
Riesenkürbis
2
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Portuguese
abóbora-moranga
2
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish
calabaza amarilla
2
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish
zapallo
2
Soukup, J.
1970. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana.
Spanish (Peru)
loche
2
Soukup, J.
1970. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana.
Name
References
Annotations
Taxonomic Re-Identification:
29 Aug 2002, from
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne to
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne subsp.
maxima
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Citations
Hernandez C., J. Labate, K. Reitsma, J. Fabrizio, Kan Bao, Zhangiun Fei, R. Grumet, & M. Mazourek .
2023. Characterization of the USDA
Cucurbita pepo
,
C. moschata
, and
C. maxima
germplasm collections. Front. Plant Sci. 14:1130814.
DOI:
10.3389/fpls.2023.1130814
.
Note:
Supplementary material: Table 1.
Number of accessions cited:
1661
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