Vegetable Marrow

Vegetable Marrow
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Summer Squash [English]: Cucurbita pepo 'Vegetable Marrow Bush'
Summer Squash [English]: Cucurbita pepo 'Sunny Delight'
Summer Squash [English]: Cucurbita pepo 'Amberpic'
Summer Squash [English]: Cucurbita pepo 'Butterstick' ...

Their tough outer skin and lengthy shelf life distinguish winter squash, such as the varieties seen here, from summer squash like zucchini or vegetable marrow.

The SQUASHES, which have such extensive culinary use in America, are a variety of the Pumpkin (C. melopepo), and another familiar member of the genus, C. evifera, a variety of C. pepo, is the Vegetable Marrow.

Cultivars include all of the acorn squashes, all of the cocozelles, most of the crooknecks and "yellow" squashes, all of the scallop squashes, 'Patty Pan', 'Sweet Dumpling', 'Delicata', 'Tatume', many of the vegetable marrows, spaghetti squash, ...

See also: Pumpkin, May, Gourd, Squash, Fruits