Taxon: Cucurbita maxima Duchesne subsp. maxima

See other conspecific taxa:

• Cucurbita maxima (829 accessions)
• Cucurbita maxima subsp. andreana (6 accessions)

Common names:

• banana squash   (Source: Econ Bot 44:59. 1990) – English
  
• buttercup squash   (Source: Econ Bot 44:59. 1990) – English
  
• giant pumpkin   (Source: Econ Bot 44:59. 1990) – English
  
• Hubbard squash   (Source: Econ Bot 44:59. 1990) – English
  
• turban squash   (Source: Econ Bot 44:59. 1990) – English
  
• winter squash   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• courge commune   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• giraumon   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• pâtisson   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• potiron   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Riesenkürbis   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• abóbora-moranga   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• calabaza amarilla   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• zapallo   (Source: Names Soukup ) – Spanish
  
• loche   (Source: Names Soukup ) – Spanish (Peru)
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit   (fruits used like a vegetable fide Econ Bot 44(suppl. 3):59. 1990)
  
• Human food: oil/fat   (for seeds and oil/fat fide Biol Cucurb 332. 1990)
  
• Human food: seeds   (for seeds and oil/fat fide Biol Cucurb 332. 1990)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (fruits used like a vegetable fide Econ Bot 44(suppl. 3):59. 1990)
  

Distributional range:

• only cultivated

References:

• Bisset, N. G., ed. 1994. Herbal drugs and phytopharmaceuticals. A handbook for practice on a scientific basis. [mentions].
• Decker-Walters, D. S. et al. 1990. Genealogy and gene flow among annual domesticated species of Cucurbita. Canad. J. Bot. 68:783.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Nee, M. 1990. The domestication of Cucurbita (Cucurbitaceae). Econ. Bot. 44(3 suppl.):59.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• 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. [evaluated hybrids of cultivated Cucurbita maxima × C. pepo].
• Soukup, J. 1970. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana.
• Whitake, T. W. 1990. Cucurbits of potential economic importance. In: Bates, D. M. et al., Biology and utilization of the Cucurbitaceae. 332.

Synonyms:

• (=) Cucurbita maxima var. turbaniformis (M. Roem.) L. H. Bailey
  
• (=) Cucurbita turbaniformis M. Roem.
  

Check other web resources for Cucurbita maxima Duchesne subsp. maxima:

• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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• 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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