Winter squash
కుకుర్బిటా మాక్సిమాമത്തൻ
Cucurbita maxima Duchesne
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 10 m
- wide
- —
Cucurbitaceae
Also called Buttercup Squash, Winter Pumpkin, Winter Squash
Formerly Cucumis rapallito, Cucurbita pileiformis, Cucurbita rapallito, Cucurbita sulcata, and 3 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Scrambling annualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- As a cultigen from Bolivia to N. ArgentinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 5.0 m to 15 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- French
- Potiron, Giraumon, Potimarron
- Spanish
- Calabaza, Zapallo, Ahuyama
- Simplified Chinese
- 北瓜, 饭瓜, 搅丝瓜
- Bavarian
- Riasenkyrbis
- Czech
- tykev obrovská
- Welsh
- pwmpen
- German
- Riesen-Kürbis
- Finnish
- Jättikurpitsa, talvisquash
- Japanese
- 西洋南瓜
- Dutch
- Reuzenpompoen
- Polish
- dynia olbrzymia
- Portuguese
- abóbora-gigante, abóbora-grande, abóbora-menina
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Cucurbita maxima (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.