TRUE PUMPKIN - SUMMER SQUASH Cucurbita pepo
The pepo species is where you will recognize the true pumpkin. These varieties within this group have bright orange skin and prickly hard, woody and distinctly furrowed stems.
But the group also includes gourds, vegetable marrow, Pattypan summer squash, scallop summer squash, gray and black zucchini and summer crookneck squash, Their pictures and names I wlll feature in my next post.
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| 'Baby Pam' |
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| "Peek-a-boo' |
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| 'Big-Red California Sugar' |
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| 'Orange Smoothie' |
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| 'Triple Treat' |
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| 'Connecticut Field' |
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| 'Bumpkin' |
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| 'Aladdin' |
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| 'Autumn King' |
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| 'Trax Field' |
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| 'Sweet Dumpling' |
