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II.2. SQUASHES, PUMPKINS, ZUCCHINIS, GOURDS (CURCURBITA SPECIES) – 149

Also, it should be noted that this annex offers examples only as a means of illustrating
the types and varieties that can be associated with the various Cucurbita species. Paris
(1989), for example, notes that for C. pepo alone, hundreds or perhaps thousands of
named cultivars exist.


Reference


Paris, H.S. (1989), “Historical records, origins and development of the edible cultivar groups of
Cucurbita pepo (Cucurbitaceae)”, Economic Botany, Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 423-443,
October-December, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4255187.

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