Details for: NSL 89361, Cucurbita maxima Duchesne subsp. maxima, EMERALD

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Cucurbita maxima Duchesne subsp. maxima

Top Name:

EMERALD

Origin:

Donated – North Dakota, United States

Maintained:

National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation

Received by NPGS:

1975

Form Received:

Seed

Availability

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Cucurbita maxima Duchesne subsp. maxima

Top Name:

EMERALD

Origin:

Donated – North Dakota, United States

Maintained:

National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation

Received by NPGS:

1975

Form Received:

Seed

Source History

Donated

1975.
North Dakota, United States

Donor(s):

North Dakota State University

Accession Names and Identifiers

EMERALD

Type: Unverified name

Narrative

Emerald is a winter squash of the buttercup type and size. The gray-grn fruits vary in shape similar to buttercup (with and without a turban). Has very thick orange flesh of very high quality and has a small seed cavity. Longer stor. life than Buttercup and each fruit provides 4 - 6 servings. True bush. Resulted from a cross of a sm. fruited, grn skinned bush select. w/ Yeager's Bush Buttercup.

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