Pumpkin fruits are a type of botanical berry known as a pepo. The oldest evidence is pumpkin fragments found in Mexico that are dated between 7,000 and 5,500 BC. Pumpkins, like other squash, originated in northeastern Mexico and southern United States. In North America and the United Kingdom, pumpkin traditionally refers to only certain round orange varieties of winter squash, predominantly derived from Cucurbita pepo, while in New Zealand and Australian English, the term pumpkin generally refers to all winter squash. The term pumpkin has no agreed upon botanical or scientific meaning, and is used interchangeably with "squash" and "winter squash". The English word squash is also derived from a Massachusett word, variously transcribed as askꝏtasquash, ashk8tasqash, or, in the closely-related Narragansett language, askútasquash. This term would likely have been used by the Wampanoag people (who speak the Wôpanâak dialect of Massachusett) when introducing pumpkins to English Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony, located in present-day Massachusetts. Īn alternate derivation for pumpkin is the Massachusett word pôhpukun, meaning 'grows forth round'. Under this theory, the term transitioned through the Latin word peponem and the Middle French word pompon to the Early Modern English pompion, which was changed to pumpkin by 17th-century English colonists, shortly after encountering pumpkins upon their arrival in what is now the northeastern United States. Īccording to the Oxford English Dictionary, the English word pumpkin derives from the Ancient Greek word πέπων ( romanized pepon), meaning 'melon'. Pumpkin pie, for instance, is a traditional part of Thanksgiving meals in Canada and the United States, and pumpkins are frequently carved as jack-o'-lanterns for decoration around Halloween, although commercially canned pumpkin purée and pumpkin pie fillings are usually made from varieties of winter squash different from the ones used for jack-o'-lanterns. Pumpkins are widely grown for food, as well as for aesthetic and recreational purposes. Native to North America (northeastern Mexico and the southern United States), pumpkins are one of the oldest domesticated plants, having been used as early as 7,000 to 5,500 BC. moschata with similar appearance are also sometimes called "pumpkins". The name is most commonly used for cultivars of Cucurbita pepo, but some cultivars of Cucurbita maxima, C.
The thick shell contains the seeds and pulp. A pumpkin is a cultivar of winter squash that is round with smooth, slightly ribbed skin, and is most often deep yellow to orange in coloration.
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