1, elm melon is pumpkin. Elm gourd is the scientific name of green pumpkin, is a new type of pumpkin varieties through crossbreeding, the mother is used in Nanning City, Wutang Town, farm varieties "mill type pumpkin" variant strain, after 6 generations of self-crossing purification of self-fertilizing lines; the father is the Dongsheng pumpkin by 8 generations of self-separation of self-crossing purification of self-fertilizing lines.
2, pumpkin: annual trailing herb; stem often rooted at the nodes, elongation up to 2-5 meters, densely covered with white short bristles. Petiole stout, 8-19 cm long, covered with short bristles; leaf blade broadly ovate or ovate-orbicular, slightly soft, 5-angled or 5-lobed, sparsely obtuse, 12-25 cm long, 20-30 cm wide, lateral lobes smaller, middle lobe is larger, triangular, densely covered with yellow-white bristles and velvet hairs, often with white spots, veins elevated, veins in the middle of the lobes often extend to the tip, into a small cusp, the dorsal surface lighter in color, the hairs are more obvious, the edge has small and dense bristles. The margins are small and densely denticulate, slightly obtuse at the tip. The tendrils are slightly stout, shortly setose and velutinous as the petiole, 3-5-fascicled.