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Details for: G 33000,
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne subsp.
maxima
, Gills Sugar Hubbard
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Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne subsp.
maxima
Top Name:
Gills Sugar Hubbard
Origin:
Donated – Oregon, United States
Maintained:
Northeast Regional Plant Introduction Station (NE9)
Received by NPGS:
1964
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
Backup Location:
National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation
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Seed
25 count
G 33000 12GI SD
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne subsp.
maxima
Top Name:
Gills Sugar Hubbard
Origin:
Donated – Oregon, United States
Maintained:
Northeast Regional Plant Introduction Station (NE9)
Received by NPGS:
1964
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
Source History
Donated
1964.
Oregon, United States
Donor(s):
Gill Bros.
Accession Names and Identifiers
Gills Sugar Hubbard
Type: Unverified name
NSL 29270
Type: Site identifier
Narrative
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
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Taxonomic Re-Identification:
29 Aug 2002, from
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne to
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne subsp.
maxima
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