First Known Image of Cucurbita in Europe, 1503–1508 | Zendy

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First Known Image of Cucurbita in Europe, 1503–1508

Author(s) -

Harry S. Paris,

MarieChristine Daunay,

Michel Pitrat,

Jules Janick

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

annals of botany

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.567

H-Index - 176

eISSN - 1095-8290

pISSN - 0305-7364

DOI - 10.1093/aob/mcl082

Subject(s) - cucurbita pepo , cucurbita , biology , squash , gourd , genus , botany , cucurbitaceae , horticulture

The genus Cucurbita (pumpkin, squash, gourd) is native to the Americas and diffused to other continents subsequent to the European contact in 1492. For many years, the earliest images of this genus in Europe that were known to cucurbit specialists were the two illustrations of C. pepo pumpkins that were published in Fuchs' De Historia Stirpium, 1542. Images of fruits of two Cucurbita species, drawn between 1515 and 1518, were recently discovered in the Villa Farnesina in Rome.

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