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The dark green, light-veined leaves are sharply palmate with usually five long triangular points. These vines spring up from a perennial tuber weighing up to two hundred pounds ( 91 kilograms). [5] The stiff, curling yellow flowers are 6 to 8 centimeters wide. The plant bears smooth spherical or oblate squash fruits 8 to 10 centimeters wide.
A female squash bug lays bronze-colored oval eggs on the underside of the leaves of the squash family plants. Each squash bug female can lay as many as 18 eggs near the main vein on the leaf where ...
The heavier the infestation, the greater the damage to the plant. Sometimes one plant or part of a plant can be heavily attacked while surrounding plants are untouched. [3] Besides the direct damage their feeding causes to the plant, these insects can act as vectors for cucurbit yellow vine disease caused by the bacterium Serratia marcescens ...
The yellow and white flowers are newly opened while the magenta flowers are older and have been triggered by pollination to produce more anthocyanins. [1] Ipomoea indica flowers change from bright blue to a faded purple by the end of the day. [2] Hibiscus mutabilis flowers changing colors during a day
Many species have large, yellow or white flowers. The stems are hairy and pentangular. Tendrils are present at 90° to the leaf petioles at nodes. Leaves are exstipulate, alternate, simple palmately lobed or palmately compound. The flowers are unisexual, with male and female flowers on different plants or on the same plant .
The yellow or orange flowers on a Cucurbita plant are of two types: female and male. The female flowers produce the fruit and the male flowers produce pollen . Many North and Central American species are visited by specialist bee pollinators , but other insects with more general feeding habits, such as honey bees , also visit.
Crookneck squash, also known as yellow squash, is a cultivar of Cucurbita pepo, [3] the species that also includes some pumpkins and most other summer squashes. The plants are bushy [ 3 ] and do not spread like the plants of winter squash and pumpkin. [ 4 ]
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