The New York Botanical Garden
CULTIVATED PLANTS of U.S.A.
Cucurbita pepo L.
"acorn squash"
NEW YORK: Bronx Co, Bronx, bought in
grocery store.
Pedicel green, hard. Fruit dark green,
some with irregular orange blotches or
areas; regularly and deeply 10-ridged,
often with a prominent nipple (not a
protruding ovary as often in C_j_ maxima)
at the flower end. Flesh light orange or
yellow-orange. Seeds pale tan.
Coll.: M. Nee 30153
Oct. 17, 1984
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