Details for: PI 602592, Cucurbita pepo L., 'Wee-B-Little'

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Cucurbita pepo L.

Cultivar:

'Wee-B-Little'

Origin:

Developed – United States

Maintained:

North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station

Received by NPGS:

20 Feb 1998

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Annual

Life Cycle:

Annual

Backup Location:

National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation

Availability

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North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Cucurbita pepo L.

Cultivar:

'Wee-B-Little'

Origin:

Developed – United States

Maintained:

North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station

Received by NPGS:

20 Feb 1998

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Annual

Life Cycle:

Annual

Source History

Developed

1998.
United States

Developer(s):

Novartis Seeds, Inc.

Accession Names and Identifiers

'Wee-B-Little'

Type: Cultivar name

RWS5604

Type: Developer identifier

Narrative

Miniature pumpkin, similar to ‘Jack Be Little’. Compact vine with short internodes. Fruits light green before anthesis, turning bright yellow before maturity, then orange at maturity with lighter speckles which are absent from the indented vein tracts between ribs. Typical round shape of pumpkin and can be carved. Fruit weight 294 gm, length 73.5 mm, diameter 92 mm.

Cucurbita pepo L.

Genus:

Cucurbita

Family:

Cucurbitaceae

Tribe:

Cucurbiteae

Nomen number:

12606

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 2:1010. 1753

Typification:

View in Linnean Typification Project

Verified:

02/17/2005 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Cucurbita pepo L. subsp. fraterna (L. H. Bailey) Lira et al. (4 active accession[s])
Cucurbita pepo L. subsp. gumala Teppner (0 active accession[s])
Cucurbita pepo L. subsp. ovifera (L.) D. S. Decker (0 active accession[s])
Cucurbita pepo L. subsp. ovifera (L.) D. S. Decker var. ovifera (L.) Harz (1 active accession[s])
Cucurbita pepo L. subsp. ovifera (L.) D. S. Decker var. ozarkana D. S. Decker (43 active accession[s])
Cucurbita pepo L. subsp. ovifera (L.) D. S. Decker var. texana (Scheele) Filov (14 active accession[s])
Cucurbita pepo L. subsp. pepo (3 active accession[s])
Cucurbita pepo L. var. pepo (0 active accession[s])

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Cucurbita galeottii Cogn.
Cucurbita mammeata Molina

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	bitter bottle gourd	1	Hamid, S. et al. 1995. Medicinal plants of family Cucurbitaceae of Pakistan (part II). Hamdard 38:96.
English	bush squash	1	Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
English	marrow	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English	pumpkin	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English	squash	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
French	citrouille	2	Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7 GEVES-SNES, Beaucouzé, France.
French	courge pepon	2	Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7 GEVES-SNES, Beaucouzé, France.
German	Gemüse-Kürbis	2	Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1340.
Italian	zucchino	2	International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
Spanish (Mexico)	calabaza	2	Lira Saade, R. & S. Montes Hernández. 1994. Cucurbits (Cucurbita spp.). In: Hernándo Bermejo, J. E. & J. León, eds., Neglected crops : 1492 from a different perspective. Plant Production and Protection Series No. 26. 63-77. Note: FAO, Rome, Italy.
Swedish	pumpa	2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Chinese	xi hu lu	2	Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Urdu (Pakistan)	ghia kaddu	2	Hamid, S. et al. 1995. Medicinal plants of family Cucurbitaceae of Pakistan (part II). Hamdard 38:96.

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