Details for: PI 135363, Cucurbita maxima Duchesne, Mekaekidu

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Cucurbita maxima Duchesne

Top Name:

Mekaekidu

Origin:

Collected – Afghanistan

Maintained:

Northeast Regional Plant Introduction Station (NE9)

Received by NPGS:

Feb 1940

PI Assigned:

1940

Backup Location:

National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation

Inventory Volume:

142
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Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Seed	25 count		PI 135363 15GI SD

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Cucurbita maxima Duchesne

Top Name:

Mekaekidu

Origin:

Collected – Afghanistan

Maintained:

Northeast Regional Plant Introduction Station (NE9)

Received by NPGS:

Feb 1940

PI Assigned:

1940

Source History

Collected

14 September 1939.
Afghanistan

Collector(s):

Koelz, W.N., Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils & Agricultural Engineering

Donated

12 February 1940.
Afghanistan

Accession Names and Identifiers

Mekaekidu

Type: Local name

No. 4718

Type: Collector identifier

Koelz, W.N. Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils & Agricultural Engineering

Narrative

Fruit round enlongate, 12 inches in length; rind ash gray, marbled with pink; flesh yellowish orange, 2 inches thick, insipid.

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.

Annotations

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Study	Availability
DISEASE	POWDERY MILDEW	SUSCEPTABILITY TO POWDERY MILDEW	9 - SEVERE	NE9.SQUASH.56	Not Available
GROWTH	PLANT HABIT	GROWTH HABIT OF THE PLANT	2 - VINE	NE9.SQUASH.56	Not Available
GROWTH	PLANT VIGOR	PLANT VIGOR	9 - EXCELLENT	NE9.SQUASH.56	Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	FLESH COLOR	FLESH COLOR	4 - MEDIUM ORANGE	NE9.SQUASH.56	Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	FLESH DEPTH	DEPTH OF FLESH IN CM.	3.2	NE9.SQUASH.56	Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	FRUIT COLOR	COLOR OF THE FRUIT.	1 - GRAY	NE9.SQUASH.56	Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	FRUIT DIAMETER	DIAMETER OF FRUIT IN CM.	25	NE9.SQUASH.56	Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	FRUIT LENGTH	LENGTH OF FRUIT IN CM.	25	NE9.SQUASH.56	Not Available