Pumpkin facts for kids

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Pumpkin
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Cucurbitales
Family: Cucurbitaceae
Genus: Cucurbita spp.
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Species

C. maxima
C. mixta
C. moschata
C. pepo

A pumpkin is a gourd. They are usually orange, but they can also be white. Pumpkins are spheres or stretched-out spheres.

People can eat pumpkins. Often people make pumpkins into pies. People can eat and cook pumpkin seeds. People also use pumpkins for decoration, for example when people make jack-o-lanterns at Halloween.

It also has a few noted medicinal use, which are traditionally used in India.

Wikispecies has information on: Cucurbita.

Images for kids

  • Traugers-farm-bucks-county-large

    Pumpkins in a garden

  • Male and Female Pumpkin Flowers

    Male (top) and female (bottom) pumpkin flowers

  • Pumpkin Patch (Winchester, Oregon)

    A pumpkin patch in Winchester, Oregon

  • Pumpkin-Pie-Whole-Slice

    Pumpkin pie is a popular way of preparing pumpkin.

  • One-pie pumpkin

    A can of pureed pumpkin, typically used as the main ingredient in pumpkin pie

  • Salted pumpkin seeds

    Salted pumpkin seeds

  • Kuerbiskernoel-01

    Pumpkin seed oil

  • Pumpkin2007

    A pumpkin carved into a jack-o'-lantern for Halloween

  • CompetitivePumpkins

    Giant pumpkins cultivated for size competitions


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