Marrow - Cucurbita pepo
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Marrow - Cucurbita pepo | dylan | North Somerset | 3 Aug 2025, 5:24 p.m. | 2 Aug 2025, 3:08 p.m. | |
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Marrow - Cucurbita pepo | dylan | North Somerset | 3 Aug 2025, 5:24 p.m. | 2 Aug 2025, 3:06 p.m. | |
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Marrow - Cucurbita pepo | dylan | North Somerset | 3 Aug 2025, 5:24 p.m. | 2 Aug 2025, 3:07 p.m. | |
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Marrow - Cucurbita pepo | dylan | North Somerset | 3 Aug 2025, 5:24 p.m. | 2 Aug 2025, 3:08 p.m. | |
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Marrow - Cucurbita pepo | dylan | North Somerset | 3 Aug 2025, 5:24 p.m. | 2 Aug 2025, 3:09 p.m. |
Species Description
Commonly grown throughout the UK and sometimes escapes. Habitat includes: allotments, tips, sewage works, spoil heaps (especially manure heaps) etc. Very similar to Pumpkin (C. maxima) but differs in its less trailing and branching habit; usually with one main shoot and diagnostically by its shorter, thicker fluted (deeply ridged) female pedicel (thinner and terete in C. maxima).
Stace 4:
Cucurbita pepo L. - Marrow.
Stems to 2m, hispid; leaves shallowly to deeply palmately lobed, hispid; corolla 30-110mm; fruit extremely variable, often very large, with thickened and fluted pedicel; (2n=10, 22, 24, 28, 40, 44). Neophyte-casual; common on tips and at sewage works, sometimes grown on field scale; Britain North to Central Scotland, mostly South England, Isle of Man, Channel Islands; North Central America. Most casual plants in Britain result from use as vegetables (marrow, courgette), but some perhaps from use as ornamentals (gourds).