Lists 1-27 Combined
Edited by Deena Decker-Walters
The Cucurbit Network
P. O. Box 560483
Miami, FL 33256
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.