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artichoke

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Re: not very tasty pumpkin
« Reply #20 on: December 05, 2006, 13:16:40 »
Hello, Supersprout, thank you, a very useful list distinguishing various cucurbit species and cultivars. Just one thing:

The FAMILY is CUCURBITACEAE

The GENUS is Cucurbita

The SPECIES are all, as you say,  Cucurbita pepoC. moschata etc.

Sorry....as a botanical illustrator I have illustrated masses of different Cucurbitaceae species for Kew specialists and others, and I had to use these distinctions carefully.

supersprout

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Re: not very tasty pumpkin
« Reply #21 on: December 05, 2006, 15:40:19 »
 :-[
Now I know better! :P ;)
I bet that was a wonderful job drawing all those cucurbitaceae (great word for scrabble) ;D ;D ;D

Squashfan

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Re: not very tasty pumpkin
« Reply #22 on: December 07, 2006, 16:19:25 »
 I came back from hols recently to a pumpkin rotting on my counter. Yucky  :-X! I may take care of a few more this weekend as they are getting in the way now.
This year it's squash.

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Re: not very tasty pumpkin
« Reply #23 on: December 07, 2006, 17:24:11 »
When you say 'take care of' .... what lies in store for them squashmad?
(no pun intended) ;D ;D ;D

 

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