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Table 14.3 Horticultural Types in Economically Important Cucurbita spp.
Species
Type
Description
Typical cultivars
C. moschata
Tropical pumpkin
Round, oblate, or irregular shape. Green buff, yellow,
or piebald hard rind.
La Primera, Seminole, Solar, El Dorado, La Estrella
Cheese pumpkin
Variable shape, smooth, hard, buff-coloured hard rind.
Dickinson, Kentucky Field
Neck squash rind fruit,
usually buff.
Long curved or straight neck. Smooth hard
Golden Crookneck, Winter Crookneck, Waltham
Butternut, Zenith, Ultra
C. maxima
Banana squash
Elongated fruit pointed at the ends.
Banana, Pink Banana
Orange or pink moderately hard rind.
Delicious squash
Top shaped. Orange or green hard rind.
Delicious, Golden Delicious
Hubbard squash
Round in the middle tapering at each end.
Hubbard, Blue Hubbard, Golden
Blue, orange, or green hard warty rind.
Hubbard
Marrow squash
Lemon-shaped with orange hard rind.
Boston Marrow
Show pumpkin
Very large globular, sutured, light orange fruit.
Moderately hard rind.
Atlantic Giant, Big Max
Turban squash
Turban shaped with a large button. Hard rind.
Turks Turban, Warren, Turks Cap
C. pepo
Acorn squash
Acorn-shaped, grooved fruit. Dark green, orange, or
white hard rind.
Table Ace, Tay Belle, Heart of Gold, Table Gold
Cocozelle squash
Long, cylindrical, bulbous blossom end.
Cocozelle, Long Cocozelle
Striped or variegated green soft rind.
Crookneck squash
Elongated with narrow curved neck.
Dixie, Yellow Summer Crookneck, Supersett
Yellow soft rind.
Ornamental gourd
Variously shaped and coloured. Smooth or warty hard
rind.
Egg, Striped, Pear, Bicolour, Spoon, Orange Ball, Crown
of Thorns, Warted
Pumpkin
Large, round, oval oblate shape. Mostly orange,
sometimes white relatively soft rind.
Connecticut Field, Small Sugar, Howden, Jack-Be-Little
Scallop squash
Flattened with scalloped margins. White, yellow,
green, or bicoloured soft rind.
White Bush Scallop, Peter Pan, Sunburst
Straightneck squash
Long, cylindrical, yellow soft rind.
Enterprise, Goldbar, Early Prolific Straightneck, Multipik
Vegetable Marrow
Short, tapered, cylindrical. Light green to gray soft rind.
Clarita, Goya, Zahra, Caserta
Zucchini squash
Uniformly cylindrical. Green or yellow soft rind.
Dividend, Revenue, Spineless Beauty, Gold Rush
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