Zucchini is a cucurbit family pumpkin annual trailing herb, its skin is relatively light green, the skin is very smooth, most of the cylindrical, it has a lot of varieties, so the shape is different, its fruiting peduncle is very stout, and has a very significant groove, the fruiting tip is slightly thick, the corolla is yellow, the seeds are more flattened, the shape of a long ovoid, generally wrapped in the inner part of the fruit.

Zucchini look

Zucchini skin is relatively light green, the skin is very smooth, most of the cylindrical, it has a lot of varieties, so the shape is also different, its fruit stalk is very stout, and has a very prominent groove, the clitoris is slightly thick, the corolla yellow.

Leaf morphology : zucchini leaf molecular leaves and true leaves two kinds, after the seedling out of the ground, the first unfolding for the two opposite, long oval cotyledons, cotyledons gradually increase in size.

What do the seeds look like: The seeds of zucchini are relatively flat, long ovoid in shape, and most of them are creamy yellow, usually wrapped in the inner part of the fruit.

What does the root system look like: One of the characteristics of the zucchini root system is early corking, and regeneration ability is weak, after the root system is injured, it is not easy to reoccur new roots.

Zucchini Plant Properties

Zucchini is an annual trailing herbaceous plant of the genus Squash in the family Cucurbitaceae, it is also known as pandan squash, white squash, American squash, etc., and its varieties include seedless zucchini, flowery leafy zucchini, long-trailing zucchini, green-skinned zucchini, black beautiful zucchini, and golden-skinned zucchini.

The origin of zucchini is located in the southern part of North America, there are distributions around the world, Europe and the Americas are the most common, our country in the middle of the 19th century from the introduction of European planting.

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