Details for: PI 267750, Cucurbita maxima Duchesne, 'Candy Roadster'

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Cucurbita maxima Duchesne

Cultivar:

'Candy Roadster'

Origin:

Collected – Oklahoma, United States

Maintained:

Northeast Regional Plant Introduction Station (NE9)

Received by NPGS:

20 Jul 1960

PI Assigned:

1960

Backup Location:

National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation

Inventory Volume:

168
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Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Seed	35 count		PI 267750 11GI SD

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Cucurbita maxima Duchesne

Cultivar:

'Candy Roadster'

Origin:

Collected – Oklahoma, United States

Maintained:

Northeast Regional Plant Introduction Station (NE9)

Received by NPGS:

20 Jul 1960

PI Assigned:

1960

Source History

Collected

01 March 1959.
Oklahoma, United States

Donated

20 July 1960.
New York, United States

Donor(s):

Northeast Regional PI Station

Accession Names and Identifiers

'Candy Roadster'

Type: Cultivar name

G 8752

Type: Site identifier

Narrative

Grown for over 100 years in North Carolina mountains. Plants vigorous, early maturing; leaf large; fruit slate gray, oblong, smooth, 20 by 9 inches. Susceptible to powdery mildew.

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	7 - (1 = SLIGHT, 9 = SEVERE)	NE9.SQUASH.59	Not Available
GROWTH	PLANT HABIT	GROWTH HABIT OF THE PLANT	2 - VINE	NE9.SQUASH.59	Not Available
GROWTH	PLANT VIGOR	PLANT VIGOR	7 - (1 = POOR, 9 = EXCELLENT)	NE9.SQUASH.59	Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	FRUIT COLOR	COLOR OF THE FRUIT.	1 - GRAY	NE9.SQUASH.59	Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	FRUIT DIAMETER	DIAMETER OF FRUIT IN CM.	23	NE9.SQUASH.59	Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	FRUIT LENGTH	LENGTH OF FRUIT IN CM.	50	NE9.SQUASH.59	Not Available
PRODUCTION	FRUIT SET	FRUIT SET	5 - (1 = POOR, 9 = EXCELLENT)	NE9.SQUASH.59	Not Available