Corn & Cucurbitaceae

Black Beauty Zucchini produces large, cylindrical, elongated, dark-skinned fruits, around 15-20cm long. Creme-white, creamy, and tender flesh. Bush-variety around 60cm high and 90cm wide. From 1931. 50D. Cucurbita pepo. 6seeds/pack

Bottle Gourd, a traditional bottle-shaped gourd. Climbing or trailing up to 250cm or more. Produces bottle-shaped fruits up to 30cm long. Young fruits can be cooked and eaten like squash. Has been grown for a very long time, not primarily for food, but for containers. Fully ripe fruits get hollow and hard as wood. Can be used as bottles for water or containers, musical instruments, lamps, and more. Lagenaria siceraria. 10seeds/pack

Butternut - ‘Anquito Butternut’ produces elongated, bottle-shaped, orange-brown fruits, around 1,5-2kg each. Creamy, sweet, orange flesh. Early variety. Cucurbita moschata. 10seeds/pack

Calabaza del Mellah is a gourd from The Neighborhood of Mellah in Marrakesh, Morocco. It grows with very long, climbing vines, 300cm or more. The leaves are covered with fine hair. Drought hardy and heat tolerant. Produce very large fruits/gourds, around 100cm long and about 15cm wide in diameter. Young, green, immature fruits can be harvested and used as squash. If the fruits are left to grow to the final size, and then dry they become very hard. Can then be used as containers, water bottles, floats, lamps, decoration, etc. 10seeds/pack

Cherokee Long Ear Popcorn is a stunningly beautiful, multicolored type of popcorn. The ears have colors in pink, purple, white, brown, red, yellow, and blue. The coloring tends to lean towards more blue-pink than red-yellow. As fully ripe and dry the ears are shiny, almost sparkling. The plants are around 180-200cm high. Lovely to use for decorations. If popped into popcorn the popcorns are smaller than normal, but the flavor is so much better. Rich, creamy and full! Cherokee Long Ear Popcorn was bred by Carl Barnes in the USA – ”the Man who saved Corn”. 100D. 25seeds/pack

Cochiti Pueblo Popcorn is a stunningly beautiful, multicolored type of popcorn. The ears have colors in red, orange, yellow, brown, and almost black. Most ears are multicolored, but some are completely red, brown, or yellow. As fully ripe and dry the ears are shiny, almost sparkling. The plants are around 200cm high. Lovely to use for decorations. If popped into popcorn the popcorns are smaller than normal, but the flavor is so much better. Rich, creamy and full! 100D. 25seeds/pack