Details for: PI 181762, Cucurbita maxima Duchesne, Potiron


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Cucurbita maxima Duchesne
Top Name:
Potiron
Origin:
Collected – Lebanon
Received by NPGS:
May 1949
PI Assigned:
1949
Availability
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FRUIT

Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Cucurbita maxima Duchesne
Top Name:
Potiron
Origin:
Collected – Lebanon
Received by NPGS:
May 1949
PI Assigned:
1949
Source History
Collected
02 November 1948.
Lebanon
Locality: Andjar-Bekaa

Collector(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
Potiron
Type: Local name

9992
Type: Collector identifier

No. 9992
Type: Collector identifier

Narrative
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.
Annotations
  • The Taxonomic Name Of The Accession When It Was Received: 31 Aug 1995, from Cucurbita pepo L. to Cucurbita maxima Duchesne
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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
Pedigree

Observations

Phenotype Data

CategoryDescriptorDescriptionValueSample SizeStudyInventoryAvailability
DISEASEWATERMELON MOSAICSUSCEPTABILITY TO MOSAIC (WATERMELON).7 - (1 = SLIGHT, 9 = SEVERE) NE9.SQUASH.58 Not Available
DISEASEPOWDERY MILDEWSUSCEPTABILITY TO POWDERY MILDEW7 - (1 = SLIGHT, 9 = SEVERE) NE9.SQUASH.58 Not Available
GROWTHPLANT HABITGROWTH HABIT OF THE PLANT2 - VINE NE9.SQUASH.58 Not Available
GROWTHPLANT VIGORPLANT VIGOR5 - (1 = POOR, 9 = EXCELLENT) NE9.SQUASH.58 Not Available
MORPHOLOGYFLESH COLORFLESH COLOR1 - YELLOW NE9.SQUASH.58 Not Available
MORPHOLOGYFLESH DEPTHDEPTH OF FLESH IN CM.1.5 NE9.SQUASH.58 Not Available
MORPHOLOGYFRUIT COLORCOLOR OF THE FRUIT.5 - GREEN NE9.SQUASH.58 Not Available
MORPHOLOGYFRUIT DIAMETERDIAMETER OF FRUIT IN CM.28 NE9.SQUASH.58 Not Available
MORPHOLOGYFRUIT LENGTHLENGTH OF FRUIT IN CM.21 NE9.SQUASH.58 Not Available
MORPHOLOGYFRUIT RIBBINGFRUIT RIBBING5 - (1 = SLIGHT, 9 = PRONOUNCED) NE9.SQUASH.58 Not Available
PRODUCTIONFRUIT SETFRUIT SET5 - (1 = POOR, 9 = EXCELLENT) NE9.SQUASH.58 Not Available