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Cucurbita lundelliana
Also called Wild Pumpkin
Bitter Pumpkin (Cucurbita lundelliana) is a wild, undomesticated annual gourd from the Yucatán and northern Central America, grown mainly by botanists and breeders rather than gardeners. It thrives in warm, seasonally dry tropical conditions and is valued as a disease-resistant wild relative of cultivated squashes.
Cucurbita lundelliana is a mesophyte plant species of the genus Cucurbita. It is native to Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. It has not been domesticated. It is found in the Yucatán region near sea level among limestone cliffs. In Guatemala it is found in Parque Nacional Yaxha Nakum Naranjo along Rio Ixtinto and near Laguna Julequito (west of west end of Lake Yaxha).
It has yellow-orange corollas and gray-green seeds. Its leaves are slightly similar to those of Cucurbita ficifolia. It is resistant to powdery mildew and crown rot.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
