Details for: PI 135373, Cucurbita maxima Duchesne, No. 5018


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Cucurbita maxima Duchesne
Top Name:
No. 5018
Origin:
Collected – Afghanistan
Received by NPGS:
Feb 1940
PI Assigned:
1940
Availability
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Seed25 countPI 135373 16GI SD
 
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Cucurbita maxima Duchesne
Top Name:
No. 5018
Origin:
Collected – Afghanistan
Received by NPGS:
Feb 1940
PI Assigned:
1940
Source History
Collected
04 November 1939.
Afghanistan
Locality: Pulikomri

Collector(s):
Donated
12 February 1940.
Afghanistan

Accession Names and Identifiers
No. 5018
Type: Collector identifier
Koelz, W.N. Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils & Agricultural Engineering

Narrative
Fruit 14 by 9 inches; rind black green with blotches of Chinese red; flesh orange yellow, 2 to 2.25 inches thick, fair quality.
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
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishgreat pumpkin  1Hamid, S. et al. 1995. Medicinal plants of family Cucurbitaceae of Pakistan (part II). Hamdard 38:97.
Englishpumpkin  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Englishred gourd  1Hamid, S. et al. 1995. Medicinal plants of family Cucurbitaceae of Pakistan (part II). Hamdard 38:97.
Englishsquash  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Englishwinter squash  1McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
GermanReisen-Kürbis  2Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1340.
GermanSpeise-Kürbis  2Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1340.
Italianzucca  2International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
Japanesekabocha  2Cumarasamy, 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  2Leiva González, S. et al. 2015. Cucurbitáceas utilizadas como alimentos en el Perú prehispánico. Arnaldoa 22:439-478.
Swedishjättepumpa  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Chinesesun gua  2Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Urdu (Pakistan)halva kaddu  2Hamid, S. et al. 1995. Medicinal plants of family Cucurbitaceae of Pakistan (part II). Hamdard 38:97.
Urdu (Pakistan)mitha kaddu  2Hamid, S. et al. 1995. Medicinal plants of family Cucurbitaceae of Pakistan (part II). Hamdard 38:97.
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Citations
  • Fassuliotis, G. 1971. Susceptibility of Cucurbita spp. to the Root-Knot Nematode, Meloidogyne incognita. Pl. Dis. Reporter 55(8):666. Note: Table 1: Plant Introductions of Cucurbit spp. evaluated for resistance to Meloidogyne incognita. (Data provided by author, not published.) Number of accessions cited: 486
  • Hernandez C., J. Labate, K. Reitsma, J. Fabrizio, Kan Bao, Zhangiun Fei, R. Grumet, & M. Mazourek . 2023. Characterization of the USDA Cucurbita pepo, C. moschata, and C. maxima germplasm collections. Front. Plant Sci. 14:1130814. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1130814. Note: Supplementary material: Table 1. Number of accessions cited: 1661
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Observations

Phenotype Data

CategoryDescriptorDescriptionValueSample SizeStudyInventoryAvailability
DISEASEWATERMELON MOSAICSUSCEPTABILITY TO MOSAIC (WATERMELON).2 - (1 = SLIGHT, 9 = SEVERE) NE9.SQUASH.78 Not Available
DISEASEPOWDERY MILDEWSUSCEPTABILITY TO POWDERY MILDEW7 - (1 = SLIGHT, 9 = SEVERE) NE9.SQUASH.78 Not Available
GROWTHPLANT HABITGROWTH HABIT OF THE PLANT2 - VINE NE9.SQUASH.78 Not Available
GROWTHUNIFORMITYUNIFORMITY8 - (1 = POOR, 9 = EXCELLENT) NE9.SQUASH.78 Not Available
GROWTHPLANT VIGORPLANT VIGOR7 - (1 = POOR, 9 = EXCELLENT) NE9.SQUASH.78 Not Available
MORPHOLOGYFLESH COLORFLESH COLOR4 - MEDIUM ORANGE NE9.SQUASH.78 Not Available
MORPHOLOGYFLESH DEPTHDEPTH OF FLESH IN CM.3.8 NE9.SQUASH.78 Not Available
MORPHOLOGYFRUIT RIBBINGFRUIT RIBBING3 - (1 = SLIGHT, 9 = PRONOUNCED) NE9.SQUASH.78 Not Available
MORPHOLOGYFRUIT SPOTTINGFRUIT SPOTTING7 - (1 = SLIGHT, 9 = PRONOUNCED) NE9.SQUASH.78 Not Available
PHENOLOGYDAYS TO POLLINATIONNUMBER OF DAYS FROM TRANSPLANTING IN FIELD TO DATE OF FIRST POLLINATION (BOTH DAYS INCLUSIVE).47 NE9.SQUASH.78 Not Available
PRODUCTIONFRUIT SETFRUIT SET6 - (1 = POOR, 9 = EXCELLENT) NE9.SQUASH.78 Not Available