Details for: NSL 29263, Cucurbita maxima Duchesne subsp. maxima, ORANGE BANANA


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Cucurbita maxima Duchesne subsp. maxima
Top Name:
ORANGE BANANA
Origin:
Donated – California, United States
Received by NPGS:
1963
Form Received:
Seed
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Cucurbita maxima Duchesne subsp. maxima
Top Name:
ORANGE BANANA
Origin:
Donated – California, United States
Received by NPGS:
1963
Form Received:
Seed
Source History
Donated
1963.
California, United States

Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
ORANGE BANANA
Type: Unverified name

Narrative
Lit. reference -- American Society for Horticultural Sci. List of Vegetable Varieties by "Committee on Vegetable Breeding and Varieties", August 1, 1959, page 69.
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
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishbanana squash  1Nee, M. 1990. The domestication of Cucurbita (Cucurbitaceae). Econ. Bot. 44(3 suppl.):55-68.
Englishbuttercup squash  1Nee, M. 1990. The domestication of Cucurbita (Cucurbitaceae). Econ. Bot. 44(3 suppl.):55-68.
Englishgiant pumpkin  1Nee, M. 1990. The domestication of Cucurbita (Cucurbitaceae). Econ. Bot. 44(3 suppl.):55-68.
EnglishHubbard squash  1Nee, M. 1990. The domestication of Cucurbita (Cucurbitaceae). Econ. Bot. 44(3 suppl.):55-68.
Englishmammoth pumpkin  1Savage, 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
Englishturban squash  1Nee, M. 1990. The domestication of Cucurbita (Cucurbitaceae). Econ. Bot. 44(3 suppl.):55-68.
Englishwinter squash  1Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Frenchcourge commune  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Frenchgiraumon  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Frenchpâtisson  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Frenchpotiron  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
GermanRiesenkürbis  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Portugueseabóbora-moranga  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanishcalabaza amarilla  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanishzapallo  2Soukup, J. 1970. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana.
Spanish (Peru)loche  2Soukup, J. 1970. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana.
Annotations
  • Taxonomic Re-Identification: 29 Aug 2002, from Cucurbita maxima Duchesne to Cucurbita maxima Duchesne subsp. maxima
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