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Details for: G 29631,
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne, NH84/255 PLOT 8 REP 1 FRUIT 2 PLT. 5
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Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne
Top Name:
NH84/255 PLOT 8 REP 1 FRUIT 2 PLT. 5
Origin:
Collected – Nigeria
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
23 Aug 1985
Improvement Status:
Cultivated material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne
Top Name:
NH84/255 PLOT 8 REP 1 FRUIT 2 PLT. 5
Origin:
Collected – Nigeria
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
23 Aug 1985
Improvement Status:
Cultivated material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
Source History
Collected
17 August 1984.
Nigeria
Locality:
Ibadan, Oyo Province.
Coordinates:
7.3667, 3.8500
(Map it)
Donated
23 August 1985.
Oyo, Nigeria
Donor(s):
Badra, T., National Horticultural Research Institute
Accession Names and Identifiers
NH84/255 PLOT 8 REP 1 FRUIT 2 PLT. 5
Type: Unverified name
Narrative
V3-5 (green). Small round, light green color. Fruit length 20.5cm., width 42.5cm., weight 1.020kg, diameter 13cm. Skin thick (0.4cm). Seed size medium, length 15mm, width 8mm., coat yellow, margin absent. Germination in field 7.5 days. Days to 50% flowering 40. Averzge stem length 72.7, rounded with tendrils present. Leaves small, pinnately deeply lobed, with smooth margins.
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne
Genus:
Cucurbita
Family:
Cucurbitaceae
Tribe:
Cucurbiteae
Nomen number:
12597
Place of publication:
Essai sur l'Histoire Naturelle des Courges 7. 1786 Aug-Sep? (J. B. A. P. M. de Lamarck, Encycl. 2:151. 1786 Oct)
Comment:
for author see Taxon 49:303-317. 2000
Verified:
06/29/2000
by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne subsp.
andreana
(Naudin) Filov
(6 active accession[s])
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne subsp.
maxima
(91 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Common names
Language
Name
Alternate name
note
seq
Citation
English
great pumpkin
1
Hamid, S. et al.
1995. Medicinal plants of family Cucurbitaceae of Pakistan (part II). Hamdard 38:97.
English
pumpkin
1
Wiersema, J. H. & B. León.
1999.
World economic plants: a standard reference
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English
red gourd
1
Hamid, S. et al.
1995. Medicinal plants of family Cucurbitaceae of Pakistan (part II). Hamdard 38:97.
English
squash
1
Wiersema, J. H. & B. León.
1999.
World economic plants: a standard reference
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English
winter squash
1
McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
German
Reisen-Kürbis
2
Erhardt, W. et al.
2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1340.
German
Speise-Kürbis
2
Erhardt, W. et al.
2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1340.
Italian
zucca
2
International Seed Testing Association.
1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
Japanese
kabocha
2
Cumarasamy, R. et al.
2002. Cultivar differences in New Zealand "Kabocha" (buttercup squash,
Cucurbita maxima
). New Zealand J. Crop Hort. Sci. 30:197-208.
DOI:
10.1080/01140671.2002.9514215
.
Spanish (Peru)
zapallo
2
Leiva González, S. et al.
2015. Cucurbitáceas utilizadas como alimentos en el Perú prehispánico. Arnaldoa 22:439-478.
Swedish
jättepumpa
2
Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson.
2012.
Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Chinese
sun gua
2
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994-.
Flora of China (English edition).
Urdu (Pakistan)
halva kaddu
2
Hamid, S. et al.
1995. Medicinal plants of family Cucurbitaceae of Pakistan (part II). Hamdard 38:97.
Urdu (Pakistan)
mitha kaddu
2
Hamid, S. et al.
1995. Medicinal plants of family Cucurbitaceae of Pakistan (part II). Hamdard 38:97.
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