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  • COMMON NAME: Courgette, Marrow, Pumpkin, Squash, Summer Pumpkin
  • ARABIC: القرع الصيفي
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Cucurbita pepo L.
  • SYNONYMS: Cucumis pepo (L.) Dumort.
  • FAMILY: CUCURBITACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Fruits (F) Apiculture (A)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs Careeper
  • HABITATS: Terrace Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production.
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:292416-1/general-information V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Honey nectar plants. Edible fruit. medicinal plant.
Vigorous usually trailing annual herb. Leaf-blade ovate or broadly triangular, cordate, prickly-setose especially on veins beneath, up to 30 cm long and broad, long-petiolate, palmately 5-lobed, lobes triangular to rhombic-elliptic, often lobulate, rather rigid, erect or ascending. Hypanthium campanulate, 9–12 mm long; sepals usually lanceolate-subulate, 12–20 mm long, rarely with a few small apical lobes; corolla 5.5–11 cm long, lobes spreading or erect. Female flowers on 0.5–5 cm long pedicels; perianth similar to male Male flowers on 4.5–15 cm long pedicels. Fruit extraordinarily variable in size, shape and color; pedicel 0.5–7 cm long, strongly 5-angled, little expanded at the apex. Seeds dirty white, 8–20 x 4–12 x 1.5–2.5 mm, bordered. Flowering from January-December.
Cultivated places and farms.
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