Taxon: Cucurbita maxima Duchesne

See also subordinate taxa:

• Cucurbita maxima subsp. andreana (6 accessions)
• Cucurbita maxima subsp. maxima (91 accessions)

Common names:

• banana squash   (Source: Econ Bot 44:59. 1990) – English   [Cucurbita maxima subsp. maxima]
  
• buttercup squash   (Source: Econ Bot 44:59. 1990) – English   [Cucurbita maxima subsp. maxima]
  
• giant pumpkin   (Source: Econ Bot 44:59. 1990) – English   [Cucurbita maxima subsp. maxima]
  
• great pumpkin   (Source: Hamdard 38:97. 1995) – English
  
• Hubbard squash   (Source: Econ Bot 44:59. 1990) – English   [Cucurbita maxima subsp. maxima]
  
• pumpkin   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• red gourd   (Source: Hamdard 38:97. 1995) – English
  
• squash   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• turban squash   (Source: Econ Bot 44:59. 1990) – English   [Cucurbita maxima subsp. maxima]
  
• winter squash   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English   [Cucurbita maxima subsp. maxima]
  
• winter squash   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• sun gua   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• courge commune   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French   [Cucurbita maxima subsp. maxima]
  
• giraumon   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French   [Cucurbita maxima subsp. maxima]
  
• pâtisson   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French   [Cucurbita maxima subsp. maxima]
  
• potiron   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French   [Cucurbita maxima subsp. maxima]
  
• Reisen-Kürbis   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• Riesenkürbis   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German   [Cucurbita maxima subsp. maxima]
  
• Speise-Kürbis   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• zucca   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• abóbora-moranga   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese   [Cucurbita maxima subsp. maxima]
  
• calabaza amarilla   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Cucurbita maxima subsp. maxima]
  
• zapallito amargo   (Source: Syst Ecogeogr Stud ) – Spanish   [Cucurbita maxima subsp. andreana]
  
• zapallo   (Source: Names Soukup ) – Spanish   [Cucurbita maxima subsp. maxima]
  
• loche   (Source: Names Soukup ) – Spanish (Peru)   [Cucurbita maxima subsp. maxima]
  
• jättepumpa   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  
• halva kaddu   (Source: Hamdard 38:97. 1995) – Urdu (Pakistan)
  
• mitha kaddu   (Source: Hamdard 38:97. 1995) – Urdu (Pakistan)
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit   (fide CultTropS)
  
• Gene sources: graft stock relative for melon   (for hybrids with Cucurbita moschata fide Scient Hort 127:108. 2008)
  
• Gene sources: graft stock relative for watermelon   (for hybrids with Cucurbita moschata fide Scient Hort 127:108. 2008)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2; Hamdard 38:97. 1995)
  
• Social: religious/secular   (for Halloween fide Mabberleys Pl Book)
  

More:

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Argentina [c. & n.]; Uruguay

• widely cultivated

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
• Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Chakravarty, H. L. 1990. Cucurbits of India and their role in the development of vegetable crops. In: Bates, D. M. et al., Biology and utilization of the Cucurbitaceae. 332.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Fursa, T. B. & A. I. Filov. 1982. Cucurbitaceae (Citrullus, Cucurbita). Kul't. Flora SSSR 21:163.
• Gómez-Pompa, A. & V. Sosa, eds. 1978–. Flora de Veracruz.
• Hamid, S. et al. 1995. Medicinal plants of family Cucurbitaceae of Pakistan (part II). Hamdard 38:97.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares. [introduced].
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• King, S. R. et al. 2010. Genetics, breeding and selection of rootstocks for Solanaceae and Cucurbitaceae. Sci. Hort. 127:106–111.
• Lira-Saade, R. 1995. Estudios taxonómicos y ecogeográficos de las Cucurbitaceae Latinoamericanas de importancia económica. Syst. Ecogeogr. Stud. Crop Genepools 9:9–10, 69–72.
• Mabberley, D. J. 2008. Mabberley's plant-book: a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses, third edition. 236.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:94.
• Nee, M. 1990. The domestication of Cucurbita (Cucurbitaceae). Econ. Bot. 44(3 suppl.):59.
• Paris, H. S. 2000. First two publications by Duchesne of Cucurbita moschata (Cucurbitaceae). Taxon 49:303–317. [regarding authorship].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics.
• Sisko, M. et al. 2003. Genome size analysis in the genus Cucurbita and its use for determination of interspecific hybrids obtained using the embryo-rescue technique. Pl. Sci. (Elsevier) 165:663–669.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Cucurbita maxima.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Cucurbita maxima.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Cucurbita maxima.

Synonyms:

• Cucurbita andreana Naudin [≡ Cucurbita maxima subsp. andreana]
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• Cucurbita maxima var. turbaniformis (M. Roem.) L. H. Bailey [= Cucurbita maxima subsp. maxima]
  
• Cucurbita turbaniformis M. Roem. [= Cucurbita maxima subsp. maxima]
  

Check other web resources for Cucurbita maxima Duchesne:

• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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