Cultivar description of vegetablemarrow, pumpkin and squash,
Cucurbita pepo L.
●There are open-pollinated and hybrid cultivars.
●Season: storage potential, use of immature fruit, and mature fruit.
●Plant habit: trailing (vine) or bush, leaf characters.
●Leaf: size small, medium or large. Leaf morphology, size, and marbling.
●Fruit: external shape and form before anthesis.
●External shape, form and colour at market maturity, bicolour and patterning.
●Internal characters: flesh colour and seed cavity.
●Resistance to specific pathogens, including Fusariumspecies.
(Detailed test guidelines for vegetable marrow and squash (119) and pumpkin
(155) are obtainable from UPOV; see Appendix 2.)