Cultivated agriculture as ECO. To make a good cream or tortilla is a very diet food.

Annual plant monoecious (separate male and female flowers on the same floor). The cultivated forms usually have erect leaves (modern varieties) but there are also creeping (ancient varieties) and then the plants can be extended up to a few meters in length . The palmate leaves are hairy and have a Vulnerant not very long, grooved petioles. The flowers are relatively large and yellow, the female pistil with very visible, with the ovary as a small zucchini. The fruit is in the form of pepo (like other cucurbits) very large and elongated when physiologically ripe is yellow with lots of seeds.

Cultivation: Plant vegetative rustic Your zero thermometer or place where growth begins, is about 10 ° C and is much lower than that of melons and watermelons. It is easy to cultivate and plant fast-growing but needs plenty of water. The squash are picked immature because if you do not lose the taste qualities. Also eat the flowers (in Mexico prefer the fruits) and seeds that are the type of the other pumpkins.

Nutritional characteristics: Ground water with only 15 calories per 100 grams. Foliated High in vitamins and potassium.