PUBLISHED IN: Essai sur l'Histoire Naturelle des Courges, by A. N. Duchesne, p. 7. 1786. Extrait de l'Encyclopédie Méthodique, by Chevalier de la Lamarck. C. J. Panckoucke, Paris, 46 pp.

TYPE: sine loc., sine leg., herb. non desig.

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SYNONYMY: Cucurbita pepo var. maxima (Duchesne ex Lam.) Del., Fl. Aegypt. Illus. 2: 76. 1812. Basionym: Cucurbita maxima Duchesne ex Lam., Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique 2(1): 151. 1786.

INFRASPECIFIC TAXA: Cucurbita maxima var. boliviana Zhiteneva, Trudy po Prikladnoi Botanike, Genetike i Selektsii 23(3): 185, f. 33–35. 1930.
     Cucurbita maxima var. chiloensis Zhiteneva, Trudy po Prikladnoi Botanike, Genetike i Selektsii 23, no. 3: 185. 1930.
     Cucurbita maxima var. parvifructina Grebenscikov, Die Kulturpflanze 6: 50.
     Cucurbita maxima var. peruviana Zhiteneva, 1930.
     Cucurbita maxima var. triloba Millan, Darwiniana 7: 342, t. 4, A–D. 1947.
     Cucurbita maxima subsp. turbaniformis (M. Roem.) Vass.
     Cucurbita maxima var. turgida L.H. Bailey, Gentes Herbarium; occasional papers on the kind of plants 7: 470, f. 238–239. 1948.         
     Cucurbita maxima var. zapallito (Carriere) Millan, Darwiniana 7: 334. 1947.
     Cucurbita maxima var. zipinka Millan, Darwiniana 7: 341, f. 1, F; tab 3, B-H. 1947.

VERNACULAR NAME: squash

OTHER VERNACULAR NAMES: pumpkin
     Arabic: qara' sudani
     Chinese: yin du nan gua, yü-kwa, hu lu
     Danish: centnergræskar
     Dutch: reuzenkalebas, reuzenpompoen
     Filipino: kalabasa
     French: potiron, grosse courge, giraumon
     German: Riesenkürbis, Zentnerkürbis
     Hebrew: dela'at
     Hindi: vilayati kaddu
     Italian: zucca gigante
     Japanese: seiyou, seiyou-kabocha
     Malay: labu manis, labu merah
     Paraguay: dutué
     Portuguese: abóbora menina, girimú, moganga
     Russian: tykva krupnoplodnaja
     Spanish: calabaza grande, calabaza gigante, calabaza de Castilla, zapallo
     Tagalog: kalabasa, karabasa, kumbasa, kabasi
     Vietnamese: bí

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DESCRIPTION: Fruit size ranges from 6cm in diameter to the largest fruit in the plant kingdom. The record as of the year 2002 is 1337.6 lb or 606.7 kg!

CHROMOSOME NUMBER: 2n = 40.

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EDIBLE USE: Immature and mature fruit and seeds eaten.

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