What Is the Scientific Name Of Squash? (ANSWERS)
SCIENTIFIC NAME OF SQUASH – In this topic, we are going to know about the scientific name of bottle gourd or known locally as kalabasa.
Actually, its scientific name is Cucurbita, which is Latin for gourd. This is a genus of herbaceous vines in the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae, and it has five known species that means squash and we’ll take a look at one of them.
This species of squash, which we will call kalabasa from here on out, came from South America at about 4000 years ago. It has many cultivars which are the following:
- Arikara squash
- Banana squash
- Boston marrow
- Buttercup squash (the commonly referred cultivar)
- Candy Roaster squash
- Hubbard squash
- Jarrahdale pumpkin
- Kabocha
- Lakota squash
- Nanticoke squash
- Turban squash.
Kalabasa can be roasted, baked, and mashed into soups. Its seed is used in treating parasites in animals.
Scientific Name
The binomial name of kalabasa is known as Cucurbita maxima.
As mentioned above, Cucurbita, which is Latin for gourd. This is a genus of herbaceous vines in the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae.
Its species name maxima, is a Latin term which means “greatest”. The term is also the following forms of the term maximus:
- nominative feminine singular
- nominative neuter plural
- accusative neuter plural
- vocative feminine singular
- vocative neuter plural
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