Jcahpo zucchini biography

Summer squash, the young fruits of Cucurbita pepo, are a common, high-value fruit vegetable. Among the summer squash, the zucchini (also known as courgette) is, on a worldwide basis, the most familiar.

The word zucchini is derived from Italian and means, literally, small gourds (derived from zucca - gourd). Often, the word zucchini in English is misappropriated to the point of becoming synonymous with summer squash.

However, the precise usage for zucchini is uniformly cylindrical summer squash fruits and, scientifically, is C. pepo subsp. pepo Zucchini Group.

Jcahpo zucchini biography wikipedia

C. pepo originated in North America and, soon after the arrival of Europeans on that continent, seeds of various indigenous round-fruited landraces, C. pepo subsp. pepo Pumpkin Group, were brought to Europe, reaching Italy by no later than 1518.

By the close of the 16^th century, Italians had already selected for longfruitedness in