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Cucurbita moschata is a species originating in the tropical Americas [2] which is cultivated for edible flesh, flowers, greens, and seeds. [3] It includes cultivars known in English as squash or pumpkin. Cultivars of C. moschata are generally more tolerant of hot, humid weather than squash of other domesticated species.
Flowers that bear a gynoecium but no stamens are called pistillate or carpellate. Flowers lacking a gynoecium are called staminate. The gynoecium is often referred to as female because it gives rise to female (egg-producing) gametophytes; however, strictly speaking sporophytes do not have a sex, only gametophytes do. [1]
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Use these tips to keep snipping the faded flowers off before they set seeds, and your mums will flower until the first frost arrives or possibly a bit after. Related: 17 Ideas for Decorating with ...
[9] [10] Female flowers have thick pedicels, and an inferior ovary with 3–5 stigmas that each have two lobes. [8] [11] The female flowers of C. argyrosperma and C. ficifolia have larger corollas than the male flowers. [8] Female flowers of C. pepo have a small calyx, but the calyx of C. moschata male flowers is comparatively short. [8]
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Pumpkin ash is a member of the olive family and is placed in section Melioides of the genus Fraxinus. [7]Historically, it was frequently called Fraxinus tomentosa Michx., but since Michaux used this name interchangeably with the species now known as green ash (F. pennsylvanica), the name Fraxinus profunda, which was applied by Benjamin Franklin Bush in 1901, was given precedence.