SC - OOP question: Snapdragon?

[Decker, Terry D.]

> The book opens with a character inquiring as to the difference between a
> pumpkin and a vegetable marrow "as she can never tell which is which."  I
> know we had discussed vegetable marrow on the list earlier; did we ever
> come to a conclusion?  If not, this could be a good hint.
> 
> 	- kat
> 
Hmmm, zucchini is called a marrow some places.  What they are probably
talking about is the giant marrow which is pumpkin-shaped and about the size
of a Sugar pumpkin.  It is green with yellow to orange meat and has a ribbed
exterior which can be smooth or rough.  It is a variant of C.pepo.  It might
be confused with the Japanese pumpkin (C. moschata) which doesn't have the
distinctly ribbed exterior.  I can't see confusing it with what we in the US
consider a pumpkin, but I have learned that other parts of the English
speaking world use the general names differently than we do.

Being C. pepo, the giant marrow (and the zucchini) are North American in
origin.  The fact that both of these appear in 16th Century Italian
paintings, suggests they were imported and adopted very early in the
exploitation of North America.

I'm slowly churning through about two feet of documentation on the
Cucurbitaceae, so maybe I'll know more about them when I get finished.

Bear
 
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