IS THERE A LIST THAT NAMES ALL THE PUMPKINS?

WINTER SQUASH - Cucurbita moschata

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Varieties in this group are usually long and oblong instead of round and have tan skin. The stems are deeply ridged and enlarged next to the fruit. This group is used for much of the canned pumpkin sold in this country. Other non-pumpkin members include the squash-like cushaw, winter crookneck squash and butternut squash.

'Chirimen'

'Neck Pumkin' 

'Fairytale' 

'Long Island Cheese' 

'Blue Magic' 

'Dickinson' 

'Cow' 

'Avalon Butternut'

IS THERE A LIST THAT NAMES ALL THE PUMPKINS?

More SUMMER SQUASH - Cucurbita pepo

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The group also includes gourds, vegetable marrow, Pattypan summer squash, scallop summer squash, gray and black zucchini and summer crookneck squash. Their stems are hard, woody and distinctly furrowed. And yes, even gourd types can be edible.

'Japanese Nest Egg' 

'Li'l Pump-ke-mon' 

'Autumn Wings' 

'Autumn Queen'

'Sugar Loaf'

'Festival'

'Yugoslavian Finger'

'Summer Crookneck'

'White Scallop Rattle' 

'Sacred Indian Rattle'

'Vegetable Spaghetti'

'Sunburst'

'Delicata'

'Dancing Gourd'

'Benning's Green Tint'

'Cotton Candy'

'Dinosaur Egg'

'Lemon'

'Carnival'

IS THERE A LIST THAT NAMES ALL THE PUMPKINS?

 TRUE PUMPKIN - SUMMER SQUASH Cucurbita pepo

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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.

'Baby Pam' 

"Peek-a-boo' 

'Big-Red California Sugar' 

'Orange Smoothie'

'Triple Treat'

'Connecticut Field'

'Bumpkin'

'Aladdin'

'Autumn King'

'Trax Field'

'Sweet Dumpling'

IS THERE A LIST THAT NAMES ALL THE PUMPKINS?

It's pumpkin season and the patches are full of unusuals.  The question is what are they, pumpkin, squash or gourd and does it have a name.  Fact is they're all squash from the Cucurbita family.  The differences are in the stems and the color of the four species in this family, and they do all have individual names.

Pumpkin is a term which originated from the early settlers. It was derived from the word 'pepo' a species of Cucurbita.  The characteristics consist of a thick woody furrowed stem with a round melon shape and orange skin.  This was probably the first and only variety of winter squash they knew. Although there are numerous other varieties in this species now,  these characteristics are  referred to as the true pumpkin, jack-o-lantern, carving pumpkin, halloween pumpkin and more.  

Gourd is also a term used for the more inedible hard rinded fruits of all species of the Cucurbita family, or it might be better understood as a mutated fruit of these plants.

Squash is the true common name of all Cucurbita, their species and varirties.

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WINTER SQUASH - Cucurbita 'maxima'

http://www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder/Plant.asp?code=E453

 In this first post I have selected some popular squashes from the 'maxima' species - just to name a few.  Their stems are soft or corky, non furrowed and their colors range from yell0w/orange to blue to gray to pale green to multi-colored.   

'Eastern Rise' 

'Golden Hubbard'

'GoldKeeper'

'Jarrahdale'

'Green Delicious'

'Uchiki Kun'

'Turks Turban'

'Boer'

''Rogue Vif d`Etampes'

'Mexigold'

'Mexigold'

'Mexigold'

'Casper'

Permanent'

Permanent'

Permanent'

'Chicago Warted'

'Marina di Chioggia'

'Verda's Buttercup'

'True Gree Hubbard'

'Kentuck Field'