Cucurbita moschata Duchesne

CUCURBITACEAE

- Cucumber family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Cucurbita moschata Duchesne

Nomencl. ref.: Essai Hist. Nat. Courges: 7 (1786)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Crookneck squash

English name: butternut pumpkin

English name: butternut squash

Spanish name: zapallo

French name: pâtisson

Italian name: Zucca torta

German name: Moschuskürbis

Grown habit: Vine, Forb/herb
Duration: Annual

Synonyms:
= Pepo moschata (Duchesne) Britton

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Dilleniidae
Order: Violales
Family: Cucurbitaceae
Genus: Cucurbita
Species:

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Gallery:

Cucurbita moschata
Kabocha fruit at Laulima Farms Cafe Kipahulu, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Cucurbita moschata
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Berlin, Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Germania, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Cucurbita moschata
Habit at Kula Ace Hardware and Nursery, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Cucurbita moschata
Picture modified from Richard Wettstein - Handbuch der Systematischen Botanik (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled 'GNU Free Documentation License'.

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (FL, GA, NC, PA, SC, VA), USA+ (PR, VI)

Distributional map for Cucurbita moschata Duchesne
Map for Cucurbita moschata Duchesne
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Cucurbita ovifera L. [183]
2) Cucurbita pepo L. [1891]
3) Cucurbita pepo L. var. condensa L.H. Bailey [204]
4) Cucurbita pepo L. var. melopepo (L.) Harz [210]
5) Cucurbita pepo L. var. pepo [306]
6) Cullen americana (L.) Rydb., orth. var. [178]
7) Cunila mariana L. [181]
8) Cupaniopsis anacardioides (A. Rich.) Radlk. [1031]
9) Cuphea petiolata (L.) Koehne [140]
10) Cupressus arizonica Greene var. nevadensis (Abrams) Little [171]

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