Vegetable Cultivar Descriptions for North America

Gourd - Benincasa, Lists 1-26 Combined

Edited by Deena Decker-Walters

Chinese Fuzzy (Fuzzy Squash, Fuzzy Melon) - Vendor: Seed Saver's Exchange. Characteristics: fruit small (8-14" long x 3-4" diameter), weighing 5-15 lb, hairy with little waxy bloom, heavy yielder, 55-60 day maturity, eaten immature like summer squash. 1981.

Chinese Preserving Melon (Courge à la cire, Chinese Winter Melon) - Characteristics: introduced to USA from China in 1892, large round to oblong fruit, 10-15" long, weighing 15-25 lb, waxy. 1892.

Giant - Vendor: Seed Saver's Exchange. Characteristics: fruit very large. 1985.

Green Long and White (Long White) - Vendor: Sunrise. Characteristics: fruit cylindrical, narrower than Chinese Preserving Melon, weighing about 20 lb, 90 day maturity. 1987.

Large Round - Vendor: Sunrise. Characteristics: fruit round to oblong, 20" diameter to 24" long x 12" diameter, rind light green covered with white wax at maturity, flesh fine grained, 90 day maturity. 1981.

Long Fuzzy - Vendor: Seed Saver's Exchange. Characteristics: fruit 2' long x 6" diameter, 90 day maturity. 1996.

Oblong - Vendor: Jordon Seeds. Characteristics: fruit 12 x 24" long, weighing up to 20 lb. 1998.

Round - Vendor: Seed Saver's Exchange. Characteristics: fruit similar to Chinese Fuzzy but roundish to oval instead of cylindrical. 1988.

Small Chinese - Vendor: Sunrise. Characteristics: fruit round and small, maturing to 5-10 lb, flesh fine grained. 1987.

Super Soup - Characteristics: fruit very long, 39" long x 8" diameter, rind smooth and without waxy bloom, vigorous short day plant; from Taiwan. Facciola's Cornucopia, 1990.

Ton Qwa Round - Vendor: Evergreen. Parentage: from Japan. Characteristics: medium-sized round fruit weighing 15-20 lb., very productive. 1994.

Tong Qua Large White - Vendor: Evergreen. Characteristics: very large fruit 30" long x 18" diameter, 120 day maturity. 1987.