Cucurbita is a genus of herbaceous vines in the gourd family. Five species are grown worldwide for their edible fruit. There is debate about the taxonomy of the genus, as the number of accepted species varies from 13 to 30. The typical cultivated species has five-lobed or palmately divided leaves with long petioles.
About Cucurbita in brief
Cucurbita is a genus of herbaceous vines in the gourd family. Five species are grown worldwide for their edible fruit. The fruits have many culinary uses including pumpkin pie, biscuits, bread, desserts, puddings, beverages, and soups. There is debate about the taxonomy of the genus, as the number of accepted species varies from 13 to 30. The typical cultivated species has five-lobed or palmately divided leaves with long petioles, with the leaves alternately arranged on the stem. The shape of C. pepo leaves varies widely. C. ficifolia is an exception, being highly uniform in appearance. There are two types of male and female flowers on a plant. Female flowers have thick pedicels and an ovary with an inferior stigmas that have two lobes that appear to be one. Male flowers in Cucur bitaceae generally have five stamens, but in some species there are only three, so there appears to be only one male and one female flower. 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. The plant stem produces tendrils to help it climb adjacent plants and structures or extend along the ground. All of the above-ground parts may be hairy with various types of trichomes, which are often hardened and sharp.
Spring-like tendrils grow from each node and are branching in some Species. C argyrosperma has ovate-cordate leaves. C moschata can have light pubescence and have angular angular leaves. The leaves of some species are slightly slightly light and have light or dense plants, or dense and dense plants. These are all four of these species. All four may or may not have white spots on a single plant, and these are singly and singly, appearing from the leaf from the axils from the front. Other kinds of gourds, also called bottle-gourd, are native to Africa and belong to the genus Lagenaria, which is in the same family and subfamily as Cucuurbitaceae. Other species are used as utensils or vessels, and their young fruits are eaten much like those of Cuculbita species. Other Cucula species were derived from the first group and are called winter squash because the full-grown fruits can be stored for months. Some cultivars that are better used only as summer squash are called Cucolpepo. Cucilpepo can be treated as winter squash, but some cultivars have been misidentified as totally separate species. The vine of the perennial Cucorbita can become semiwoody if left to grow. It can grow 5 to 15 meters in height or length, the plant stem producing tendrils.
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