Buttercup Pumpkin

Flesh is orange with a rich nutty flavour and dry string less texture.
Buttercup pumpkin. Turban squash also known as french turban an heirloom predating 1820 and closely related to the buttercup squash. 12 seeds per packet. The good news is. One of our favourite dry pumpkins.
Butternut squash cucurbita moschata known in australia and new zealand as butternut pumpkin or gramma is a type of winter squash that grows on a vine. Excellent for roasting one of the best tasting pumpkin varieties. Pumpkin buttercup h cucurbita maxima buttercup is a kabocha type dark green pumpkin with a grey button on the blossom end. It is extremely popular especially as a soup in brazil colombia and africa.
The medium sized 2 3 kg fruits have deep orange dense stringless flesh with a rich sweet nutty flavour. Stores well if cured in a dry airy environment. A dark grey green skin that is contrasted with deep orange flesh. Pumpkin spice season is upon us which means people are clamoring over trader joe s annual line of fall inspired goodies including the return of their famous pumpkin butter.
Generally 10 12 pumpkins are produced per vine. 20 seeds sp273 sp240. Averages 3 4 pumpkins per plant at 1 3 2 5 kg. At about 10 per jar however buying this ever so enticing seasonal item can become a pricey habit.
It can also be used to make a spectacular holiday dessert pumpkin pecan cheesecake. It has a sweet nutty taste similar to that of a pumpkin it has tan yellow skin and orange fleshy pulp with a compartment of seeds in the blossom end. Buttercup is a heirloom pumpkin variety that produces medium sized green skinned fruit about 2kg in weight.