Cucurbita Pepo: Planta

Species primum domesticata est abhinc annorum circiter 10 000 in Mexico meridiano. Indicia huius culturae usque adhuc antiquissima in spelunca Guilá Naquitz reperta sunt.

Fructus cultivarietatum Cucurbitae peponis

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Plantae

Ordo : Cucurbitales 
Familia : Cucurbitaceae 
Genus : Cucurbita 
Species : C. pepo 
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Fontes antiquiores

• 1588 : Thomas Hariot, A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia, of the commodities there found and to be raysed .... Londinii Textus editionis fac-simile 1903
• 1597 : John Gerard, The Herball, or generall historie of plantes. Londinii: John Norton pp. 772-775
• 1753 : Carolus Linnaeus, Species plantarum (Holmiae: impensis L. Salvii, 1753) vol. 2 p. 1010 (Latine)
• 1786 : Antoine Nicolas Duchesne^(fr), Essai sur l'histoire naturel des courges. Lutetiae: Panckoucke

De specie

• Oris I. Sanjur, Dolores R. Piperno, Thomas C. Andres, Linda Wessel-Beaver, "Phylogenetic relationships among domesticated and wild species of Cucurbita (Cucurbitaceae) inferred from a mitochondrial gene: Implications for crop plant evolution and areas of origin" in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences vol. 99 (2002) pp. 535–540
• Thomas W. Whitaker, W. P. Bemis, "Origin and Evolution of the Cultivated Cucurbita" in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club vol. 102 (1975) pp. 362-368 JSTOR

De historia

• Spencer P. M. Harrington, "[http:~//archive.archaeology.org/9707/newsbriefs/squash.html Newsbriefs: Earliest Agriculture in the New World]" in Archaeology vol. 50 no. 4 (1997)
• Jules Janick, Harry S. Paris, "The Cucurbit Images (1515–1518) of the Villa Farnesina, Rome" in Annals of Botany vol. 97 (2006) pp. 165-176
• Harry S. Paris, The Drawings of Antoine Nicolas Duchesne for his Natural History of the Gourds. Lutetiae: Publications scientifiques du Muséum, 2007 Textus
• Harry S. Paris, Marie-Christine Daunay, Michel Pitrat, Jules Janick, "First known image of Cucurbita in Europe, 1503–1508" in Annals of Botany vol. 98 (2006) pp. 41–47 (de libro horarum Annae Britanniae)
• Anthony J. Ranere, Dolores R. Piperno, Irene Holst, Ruth Dickau, José Iriarte, "The cultural and chronological context of early Holocene maize and squash domestication in the Central Balsas River Valley, Mexico" in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences vol. 106 (2009) pp. 5014–5018
• Bruce D. Smith, "The Initial Domestication of Cucurbita pepo in the Americas 10,000 Years Ago" in Science vol. 276 (1997) pp. 932–934 situs venalis
• Elias Yanovsky, Food plants of the North American Indians (Vasingtoniae: Department of Agriculture, 1936) p. 59

• Pepo Americanus