This list of gourds and squashes provides an alphabetical list of (mostly edible) varieties (cultivars) of the plant genus Cucurbita, commonly called gourds, squashes, pumpkins and zucchinis/courgettes. Common names can differ by location. The varieties included below are members of the following species:

The entries below are predominantly based on the SysTax database.[1] Not all have the 'accepted' status in the ITIS database.[2]

C. argyrosperma edit

 
Cushaw squash

C. ficifolia edit

 
Fig-leaf squash

C. maxima edit

 
Atlantic Giant
 
Buttercup squash
 
Kabocha
 
Red kuri
 
Turban squash
  • Amphora
  • Aurantiaca-Alba
  • Atlantic Giant[3]
  • Australian Butter
  • Big Moon
  • Bleu de Hongrie
  • Blue Banana
  • Buttercup squash
  • Crown Prince
  • Flat White Boer A[4]
  • Galeux d'Eysines
  • Gelber Zentner
  • Giraumon Turban
  • Golden Delicious
  • Golias
  • Green Hubbard
  • Grosser Gelber Zentner
  • Grosser Gruener
  • Hubbard squash
  • Kiszombori
  • Kabocha
  • Mammut
  • Marina di Chioggia
  • Massimo di Chioggia
  • Orange Früchte
  • Peruaner Kürbis
  • Prizewinner
  • Queensland Blue
  • Red kuri squash (Hokkaido)
  • Roter Zentner
  • Sweet meat
  • Tondo di Nizza
  • Triambelkürbis
  • Trombone
  • Turban squash
  • Valenciano
  • Veltruska
  • Viridi-Alba
  • Wildsippe Argentinien
  • Yellow Hubbard

C. moschata edit

 
Butternut squash
 
Muscat de Provence
  • Butternut squash
  • Calabaza
  • Dickinson pumpkin
  • Futsu black-rinded
  • Long Island cheese pumpkin
  • Mantelsackkürbis
  • Muscat de Provence or Musquee de Provence
  • Napolitaner Kürbis
  • Shishigatani
  • Trombolino d'Albenga
  • Zuckerkürbis aus dem Berry

C. pepo edit

 
Connecticut field pumpkins
 
Green button (pattypan) squash
 
Yellow zucchini
 
Cooked spaghetti squash
 
C. pepo var. styriaca
  • Acorn squash
  • Ampullaris
  • Aurantia
  • Baby Boo
  • Big Max pumpkin
  • Black Zucchini
  • Blanche de Virginie
  • Bunter Patisson
  • Caserta
  • Casertaosa
  • Casertara
  • Casertarmis
  • Citrullina
  • Cocozelle
  • Cocozelle von Tripolis
  • Connecticut field pumpkin
  • Courgette de Nice
  • Custard White
  • Delicata squash
  • Early prolific Straightneck
  • Ex Griechenland
  • Futterkurbis Oblonga
  • Futterkurbis Pyriformis
  • Gem squash
  • Gemini F1
  • Gießener Ölkürbis
  • Giromontina
  • Gold Rush F1
  • Indian Summer Mix
  • Jack be Little
  • Jaspee de Vandee
  • Kleine Warzen
  • Kronenkurbis
  • Kronenmischung
  • Lebanese
  • Maliformis
  • Mandarin
  • Olkurbis Comet
  • Olkurbis Reform
  • Patidou
  • Patisson
  • Pattypan squash
  • Petite Verte de l'Algerie
  • Pyriformis
  • Pyxidaris
  • Rankenloser Ölkürbis
  • Reticulata
  • Romanesco
  • Roter Zentner
  • Runder Nizzakürbis
  • Spaghetti squash
  • Styrian oil pumpkin
  • Tatuma (Tatume) (White Mexican squash)
  • Tschermak
  • Verrucosa
  • Verrucosissima
  • Verte d´Italia
  • Wendehals
  • White Custard
  • Winterhorn
  • Yellow summer squash
  • Zucchini

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Cucurbita (Genus)", SysTax Database for Systematics and Taxonomy, University Ulm, Ruhr-University Bochum, both in Germany, retrieved 2011-11-04
  2. ^ "Cucurbita L.", Integrated Taxonomoic Information System, retrieved 2011-11-04
  3. ^ Warren, Susan (2007). Backyard Giants: The Passionate, Heartbreaking, and Glorious Quest to Grow the Biggest Pumpkin Ever. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-59691-278-6.
  4. ^ Deppe, Carol (2010). The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times. Chelsea Green Publishing. p. 204. ISBN 978-1-60358-031-1. Flat White Boer.

External links edit