There is no difference between zucchini and wild rice squash.
They are the same kind of plant, only the name varies from place to place. Zucchini, also known as wild rice squash, white squash, squash, American squash, for the Cucurbitaceae squash genus, annual herbaceous vines (trailing), there are dwarf, semi-trailing, trailing three strains. Zucchini fruit is cylindrical, small fruit shape, smooth fruit surface, to pick young fruit for vegetable use. Zucchini to thin skin, thick flesh, juicy, meat can be vegetarian.
Zucchini is an annual trailing herb, often creeping growth, stems with furrows, petiole stout, calyx has lobes, is linear-lanceolate, will produce yellow flowers, stamen filaments fifteen millimeters long, each fruit has three hundred to four hundred seeds, the seeds are white or yellowish, the seed coat is smooth, the life span of about five years in general.
Growth habit
The optimal temperature during the growth period is 20-25 ℃, below 15 ℃ growth is slow, below 8 ℃ to stop growing. 30 ℃ above the growth of slow and very susceptible to disease. Seed germination temperature for 25-30 ℃, 13 ℃ can germinate, but very slow; 30-35 ℃ germination fastest, but easy to cause the growth. Flowering and fruiting period requires higher temperatures, generally keep 22-25 ℃ best.
The minimum temperature for root growth is 6℃, and the minimum temperature for root hair occurrence is 12℃. Night temperature 8-10 ℃ when fertilized fruit can develop normally. Light intensity requirements moderate, more tolerant of low light, but insufficient light is easy to cause growth. Photoperiod is a short sunlight plants, long sunlight conditions are conducive to the growth of stems and leaves, short sunlight conditions earlier melon knotting period.
Zucchini like wet, intolerant of drought, high temperature and drought conditions are prone to virus disease; but high temperature and high humidity is also easy to cause powdery mildew. The soil requirements are not strict, sandy soil, loamy soil, clay soil can be cultivated, deep loamy soil is easy to get high yield.