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The use of the word "pumpkin" is thought to have originated in New England in North America, derived from a word for melon, or a native word for round. The term is sometimes used interchangeably with " squash " or "winter squash", and is commonly used for some cultivars of Cucurbita argyrosperma , Cucurbita ficifolia , Cucurbita maxima ...
Pumpkins have been used by Native Americans to treat intestinal worms and urinary ailments. This Native American remedy was adopted by American doctors in the early nineteenth century as an anthelmintic for the expulsion of worms. [146] In southeastern Europe, seeds of C. pepo were used to treat irritable bladder and benign prostatic ...
The pumpkin plant has unisexual flowers and vines and large leaves. [3] The Connecticut field pumpkin is similar to winter squash, which was grown by Native Americans in the pre-Columbian era. [4] [5] The name "Connecticut field" references the area where the ancestral variety was found.
Cucurbita moschata is a species originating in either Central America or northern South America. [2] It includes cultivars known as squash or pumpkin. C. moschata cultivars are generally more tolerant of hot, humid weather than cultivars of C. maxima or C. pepo.
Neither pumpkin or sweet potatoes are indigenous to the United States specifically, nor are either necessarily native to White or Black cultures, said KC Hysmith, a food scholar.
There are two wicked ironies therein: 1) That if one does happen to think of a Native American food item, it’s frybread, a result of Natives surviving on reservations by making do with measly ...
“When Europeans came to America, they discovered pumpkins, a Native American crop which, besides being tasty, they recognized would make fabulous jack-o-lanterns,” she says.
Native Americans introduced the first non-Native American Southerners to many other vegetables still familiar on southern tables. Squash , pumpkin , many types of beans , many types of peppers , and sassafras all came to the settlers via Indigenous peoples.