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Cucurbita foetidissima is native to North America. It is found in the central and southwestern United States, [15] in: Arizona, Arkansas, southern California, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, southern Nebraska, southern Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and southern Utah.
The genus was part of the culture of almost every native peoples group from southern South America to southern Canada. [52] Modern-day cultivated Cucurbita are not found in the wild. [ 5 ] Genetic studies of the mitochondrial gene nad1 show there were at least six independent domestication events of Cucurbita separating domestic species from ...
Native to Amazon. Domesticated and cultivated in South America, Central America and Caribbean. Indian Potato - roots of two native species- Apios americana and Apios priceana; Jerusalem artichoke - specific species of sunflower with large, edible root. Lily Bulbs- several species in Lilium family
Calabaza fruits for sale in a supermarket in the Philippines Calabaza vine. Calabaza is the generic name in the Spanish language for any type of winter squash.Within an English-language context it specifically refers to the West Indian pumpkin, a winter squash typically grown in the West Indies, tropical America, and the Philippines.
Lakota squash is an American variety. Nanticoke squash was grown by the Nanticoke people of Delaware and Eastern Maryland. It is one of only a few surviving Native American winter squashes from the Eastern woodlands. [21] Turban squash, also known as "French turban", predates 1820 and is closely related to the buttercup squash. [22]
Cucurbita palmata. Cucurbita palmata is a species of flowering plant in the squash family known by the common names coyote melon and coyote gourd. [1] [2] It is similar to Cucurbita californica, Cucurbita cordata, Cucurbita cylindrata, and Cucurbita digitata and all these species hybridize readily. [3]
Butternut squash – a popular winter squash in much of North America; Calabaza – a commonly grown winter squash in the Caribbean, tropical America, and the Philippines; Dickinson pumpkin – Libby's uses a proprietary strain of Dickinson for its canned pumpkin [8] [9] Giromon – a large, green cultivar, grown primarily in the Caribbean ...
Corn, beans and squash were domesticated in Mesoamerica around 3500 BCE. Potatoes, quinoa and manioc were domesticated in South America. In what is now the eastern United States, Native Americans domesticated sunflower and sumpweed around 2500 BCE. [11]