Cucurbita once the genus or Pumpkin is a vine that produces large fruit with the same name, Pumpkin too. So famous and widely cultivated in Aceh and the archipelago. Besides here, pumpkins are also widely cultivated in Europe, Australia, North America, New Zealand, and also especially in Southeast Asia.
#Pumpkin names are also very often pinned to refer to members of the Cucurbitaceae family other than the Cucurbita genus such as snake gourd, chayote and bligo.
There are approximately twenty species of pumpkin throughout the world, with the number of subspecies and varieties reaching more than one hundred. But what is cultivated in the archipelago generally only five species are from the Cucurbita maxima |sweet pumpkin||, Cucurbita ficifolia, Cucurbita mixta,
Cucurbita moschata |pumpkin or red pumpkin|| and Cucurbita pepo |sweet pumpkin|| in Aceh itself, people call "Boh Labu". Pumpkin plants are thought to be originally from Maluku |indonesia||
#People often also call Yellow Pumpkin or Red Pumpkin for the Cucurbita moschata and Sweet Pumpkin species for the Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita pepo species. #In English it is generally referred to as Pumpkin or Butternut squash and Winter squash.
The most interesting thing is about the bell-shaped pumpkin flower and the yellow color is bright elegant and awesome, especially when it blooms in the trunk that spreads really beautiful seen with a combination of light green leaves.
Pumpkin flower is unisexual-monoesius, in a flower cluster there are male flowers and female flowers.
Fruit will be found at the base of the female flower, whereas in male flowers there is no fruit. The pollination of pumpkin flowers can be affected by wind or insects and beetles. It's not just the pumpkin that is delicious to be processed but the pumpkin flower is yellow and it can also be consumed and the taste is very delicious.
#Pumpkin flowers are usually processed and consumed are pumpkin flowers that are still in the form of buds, but only the male flowers are picked for consumption for vegetables or soup and other food ingredients. For how to distinguish the characteristics of female flowers and male flowers in pumpkin plants is very easy, is the female flower in the pumpkin has a small pumpkin-shaped lump that is still small at the end of the stem while male flowers do not have it.
In central America, precisely Mexico is the country that most often processes food sources from pumpkin flowers, usually the residents there mix it with Zukini or make it mixed in salads. There are also some regions that also like to process it into vegetables or tasty stir-fry.
A lot of excitement from pumpkin flowers is one of them which is a nutritious nutrient which is about 155 grams of raw pumpkin flower containing 1.32 grams of protein, 3.28 grams of carbohydrate, and 17.00 grams of calcium, also 280.25 mcgram of potassium, 385 IU of vitamin A and followed by 25.92 mcgram folate as well contains 1.37 grams of dietary fiber.
This vegetable can be an option to fulfill our need for vitamin A and folate which is important for the metabolism of the human body. That is a little review about Pumpkin flowers, besides being beautiful with a tempting yellow color, the fruit can also be processed as a food source. To be sure! Pumpkin is an exotic creeper that has benefits from all sides that grow from Nature.
Date: 03|09|2018
Location: Lhokseumawe | Aceh
Made with: Canon Power Shot SX540HS
Settings: ISO 1600 f 3.4
Lens: 4.3-215.0mm f / 3.4-5.6
Catagory: Flower photography