Zucchini is also known as bear (male) squash, white squash, fenugreek American squash, small squash, vegetable squash, nettle squash, smoked squash. Cucurbita pepo, scientific name zucchini also known as pectic gourd (scientific name: Cucurbita pepo var. cylindrica), is an artificial cultivar of the American pumpkin (scientific name: Cucurbita pepo), the fruit for food. The appearance is characterized by the star shape of the cut surface at the top that was originally connected to the stem.

Taiwan calls zucchini (small winter squash, hairy squash) another variety with the scientific name Benincasa hispida var. chieh-qua, but some people mistakenly call zucchini zucchini, and the pectin used in Japanese cuisine is zucchini, and the Taiwanese varieties of zucchini are Tainan No. 1 to No. 4, respectively.

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Annual trailing herb; stem furrowed, with short bristles and translucent hispid. Petiole stout, shortly setose, 6-9 cm long; leaf blade stiff, erect, triangular or ovate-triangular, apex acute, margin irregularly sharply toothed, base cordate, curved emargination semicircular, 0.5-1 cm deep, 3-4 cm wide, dark green above, lighter color below, leaf veins slightly raised abaxially, both surfaces hispid.

The tendrils are slightly stout, pilose, and dichotomous. Monoecious. Male flowers solitary; pedicel stout, angular, 3-6 cm long, covered with short yellow-brown bristles; calyx tube distinctly 5-angled, calyx lobes linear-lanceolate; corolla yellow, often attenuate to base in a campanulate form, 5 cm long, 3 cm in diameter, splitting to near middle, lobes erect or slightly extended, apically acute; stamens 3, filaments 15 mm long, anthers connivent, 10 mm long. Female flower solitary, ovary ovate, 1-loculed.

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