Details for: PI 559387, Cucurbita pepo L., 'HOWDEN BIGGIE'

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Cucurbita pepo L.

Cultivar:

'HOWDEN BIGGIE'

Origin:

Developed – United States

Maintained:

North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station

Received by NPGS:

08 Jan 1991

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Seed

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:

'HOWDEN BIGGIE'

Origin:

Developed – United States

Maintained:

North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station

Received by NPGS:

08 Jan 1991

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Seed

Source History

Developed

1975.
United States
Comment: PVP 9200044. Developer John A. and Virginia J. Howden, Howden Farm, Rannapo Road, Sheffield, Massachusetts 01257. Selection from 'Howden'.
Developer(s):

Howden Farm

Donated

08 January 1991.
United States

Donor(s):

Howden Farm

Accession Names and Identifiers

'HOWDEN BIGGIE'

Type: Cultivar name

Narrative

Jack-o-lantern type. Developed by John A. Howden of Massachusetts. A large fruit selection from open pollinated variety 'Howden Pumpkin' developed from 'Connecticut Field Pumpkin'.

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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