Details for: G 29795, Cucurbita maxima Duchesne, Calabaza de Asar

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Cucurbita maxima Duchesne

Top Name:

Calabaza de Asar

Origin:

Collected – Spain

Maintained:

Northeast Regional Plant Introduction Station (NE9)

Received by NPGS:

18 Aug 1987

Improvement Status:

Landrace

Form Received:

Seed

Availability

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Northeast Regional Plant Introduction Station (NE9)

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Cucurbita maxima Duchesne

Top Name:

Calabaza de Asar

Origin:

Collected – Spain

Maintained:

Northeast Regional Plant Introduction Station (NE9)

Received by NPGS:

18 Aug 1987

Improvement Status:

Landrace

Form Received:

Seed

Source History

Collected

18 February 1985.
Spain
Locality: Undulating, level site, red clay soil, moderate drainage, farmland, Villatoya, Albacete Province
Coordinates: 39.3333, -1.3667 (Map it)
Elevation: 450m.

Donated

18 August 1987.
Spain
Comment: Received through IBPGR, Rome, Italy
Donor(s):

Nuez, F.V., Escuela Tecnica Sup. de Ing. Agronomos

Accession Names and Identifiers

Calabaza de Asar

Type: Local name

CM-CU-10

Type: Donor identifier

Group: IBPGR

International Board for Plant Genetic Resources

Narrative

Sown April, harvested October. Used as food. Fruit not sweet.

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	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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