Details for: PI 656590, Cucurbita maxima Duchesne subsp. maxima, Red Gold Banana

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Cucurbita maxima Duchesne subsp. maxima

Top Name:

Red Gold Banana

Origin:

Collected – United States

Maintained:

Northeast Regional Plant Introduction Station (NE9)

Received by NPGS:

1968

Form Received:

Seed

Backup Location:

National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation

Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Seed	25 count		PI 656590 09GI SD

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Cucurbita maxima Duchesne subsp. maxima

Top Name:

Red Gold Banana

Origin:

Collected – United States

Maintained:

Northeast Regional Plant Introduction Station (NE9)

Received by NPGS:

1968

Form Received:

Seed

Source History

Collected

United States

Donated

1968.
Ontario, Canada

Donor(s):

Lowden's Better Plants and Seeds

Accession Names and Identifiers

Red Gold Banana

Type: Unverified name

NSL 65876

Type: Site identifier

USDA ARS National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation

Narrative

Lit. refer.-Amer. Veg. Grower Var. List, 12/68. Modified banana type squash, red gold-red skin; sweet yellow flesh.

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	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.

Annotations

Taxonomic Re-Identification: 29 Aug 2002, from Cucurbita maxima Duchesne to Cucurbita maxima Duchesne subsp. maxima