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  2. Cucurbita maxima - Wikipedia

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    Cucurbita maxima, one of at least five species of cultivated squash, is one of the most diverse domesticated species. [2] This species originated in South America from the wild subspecies Cucurbita maxima subsp. andreana over 4,000 years ago. [ 3 ]

  3. Red kuri squash - Wikipedia

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    Red kuri squash (katakana: ウチキクリ) is a thin skinned orange colored winter squash, a cultivated variety of the species Cucurbita maxima. It looks like a small pumpkin without the ridges. It belongs to the Hubbard squash group. Inside the hard outer skin there is a firm flesh that provides a very delicate and mellow chestnut-like flavor ...

  4. Giant pumpkin - Wikipedia

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    Giant pumpkins are Cucurbita maxima, a different species from the pumpkins used for jack-o'-lanterns or pumpkin pies, which are usually C. pepo. C. maxima likely emerged from wild squash in South America near Buenos Aires. The fruits of wild Cucurbita maxima are around the size of a softball. [2] Giant pumpkins in Howard Dill's Nova Scotia ...

  5. Winter squash - Wikipedia

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    Calabaza, a winter squash common in Cuba, Florida, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines Butternut squash is a variety of winter squash. Four species in the genus Cucurbita yield cultivars that are grown as winter squashes: C. argyrosperma, C. maxima, C. moschata, and C. pepo. Cultivars of winter squash that are round and orange are called pumpkins.

  6. Flora of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    There are over 137 genera and about 998 species of orchids so far recorded in the Philippines as of 2007. [5] The broad lowland and hill rain forests of the Philippines, which are mostly gone today, [6] were dominated by at least 45 species of dipterocarps. These massive trees were abundant to up to 1,000 meters above sea level.

  7. Pumpkin - Wikipedia

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    The central and rightmost orange fruits are Cucurbita pepo, all others are Cucurbita maxima A field of giant pumpkins. A pumpkin is a cultivated winter squash in the genus Cucurbita. [1] [2] The term is most commonly applied to round, orange-colored squash varieties, but does not possess a scientific definition.

  8. Cucurbita - Wikipedia

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    [134] [135] Until recently, the earliest known depictions of this genus in Europe was of Cucurbita pepo in De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes in 1542 by the German botanist Leonhart Fuchs, but in 1992, two paintings, one of C. pepo and one of C. maxima, painted between 1515 and 1518, were identified in festoons at Villa Farnesina in Rome ...

  9. University of the Philippines Los Baños Institute of Plant ...

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    Mutation Breeding of Philippine Avocado Although engaged in genetic engineering , the institute also uses mutation breeding, which is an alternative method of improving crop varieties. Small portions of avocado plant tissue (embryos) were allowed to grow (embryogenic cultures) and to differentiate into somatic embryos and shoots.