[Sca-cooks] Winter Squash

[david friedman]

>  >We may have been through this before--I'm not sure--but how can you
>>tell they are New World (presumably C. Pepo) rather than Lagenaria?
>>Do the paintings show the color of the blossoms?
>
>The Curcubits (New World Squashes) have heavy ridged stems (five or seven
>ribs, IIRC), while the gourds and the melons have smoother, almost round
>stems.  The botanical drawings in various herbals and some of the highly
>detailed Renaissance paintings show the difference.


That tells us that they aren't C. Pepo, but does it tell us that they 
are Lagenaria, as opposed to some other edible gourd or melon?

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David/Cariadoc
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