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Cucurbita pepo (field pumpkin; vegetable marrow)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Cucurbita pepo is a cultivated plant of the genus Cucurbita. It yields varieties of winter squash and pumpkin, but the most widespread varieties belong to Cucurbita pepo subsp. pepo, called summer squash.
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Infraspecies

Cucurbita pepo pepo
Cucurbita pepo var. barbarica
Cucurbita pepo var. giromontiina
Cucurbita pepo var. italica
Cucurbita pepo var. larnacana
Cucurbita pepo var. medullosa
Cucurbita pepo var. melopepo
Cucurbita pepo var. patagonica
Cucurbita pepo var. polki
Cucurbita pepo var. pyxidaris
Cucurbita pepo var. subverrucosa
Cucurbita pepo var. texana (Texas gourd)
Cucurbita pepo var. torticollis
Cucurbita pepo var. verrucosa
Cucurbita pepo var. viridis

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Monoecious
Hazards [1]  The sprouting seed produces a toxic substance in its embryo;
Lifespan [1]  Annual
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Structure [1]  Vine
Usage [1]  The seed contains 34 - 54% of a semi-drying oil. Used for lighting;
Height [1]  24 inches (0.6 m)
Width [1]  16.4 feet (5 m)
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Predators

Providers

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Golovinomyces orontii[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Norrbom, A.L. 2004. Fruit fly (Tephritidae) host plant database. Version Nov, 2004.
♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 6Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 7Review of the Neotropical species of the family Pterophoridae, part I: Ochyroticinae, Deuterocopinae, Pterophorinae (Platyptiliini, Exelastini, Oxyptilini) (Lepidoptera), C. Gielis, Zool. Med. Leiden 80 (2006)
♦ 8Robertson, C. Flowers and insects lists of visitors of four hundred and fifty three flowers. 1929. The Science Press Printing Company Lancaster, PA.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0