PUMPKIN

• Pumpkin(лат. Cucurbita)
• Grassy plant of Cucurbitaceae family(Cucurbitaceae)

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The word “pumpkin” is understood as summer squash (Cucurbita pepo). It is one-year-old or perennial hard-rough or villous grasses grovelling thanks to branching tendrils,plant is covered by lobar leaves.

   The motherland of pumpkin is Central and South America. In Europe it appeared in 16 century. Nowadays it grows at all continents with different climatic conditions.