ZUCCHINI SQUASH

SQUASH Cucurbita spp.

FAMILY: Cucurbitaceae; squash family

PLANT TYPE: Annual

SEED VIABILITY: 4 Years

Parthenocarpy: Development of fruit without fertilization.

Cross-pollination of squash by cucumber may 

occasionally result in parthenocarpic fruit. 

Cucumbers Cucumis sativus Family: Cucurbitaceae; squash

1 Zucchini amongst 4 cucumber plants. 

ZUCCHINI SQUASH IS UNDER THE CUCRBITA pepo VARIETIES

Ants on Zucchini Squash flower.
Squash plants are insect pollinated.  

The Zucchini male flower is straight and thin.

Zucchini squash Female flower has an overy 
resembling that of a squash.

SEED SAVING?  

Summer squashes are fully mature for seed collection

when the rinds are hard and yellowish.  

Zucchini Squash plant with several zucchini squash.

When harvesting zucchini squash or removing dead leaves

it is ideal to wear some gardening gloves.

Zucchini plant has hollow C. pepo stems are hard, prickly,
and enlarged at the point of attachment.

Some information about Squash plants 

from book:  THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO SAVING SEEDS 

by Robert Gough and Cheryle Moore-Gough

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