Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 21:67-68 (article 26) 1998 Alejandro Ching Alternative Crops Research and Development Center, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO 64468, U.S.A. Introduction. Winter melon (white or ash gourd, fuzzy gourd, don-kwa) is botanically known as Benincasa hispida (Thunb. Cogn. and has a chromosome number of 2n=24 (2,3,6). Rubatsky and Yamaguchi (4) list […]