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Tennessee Sweet
Potato Pumpkin (C. mixta)
95 days
A very old pumpkin/squash
variety. Although it was always listed as a pumpkin it’s actually
more of a winter squash.
Fruit are pear shaped with a creamy white color skin, striped with
faint green strips.
It’s an excellent keeper, have had them keep for over 6 months.
Flesh is light colored, fine grained, very dry and resembles sweet
potatoes in flavor, makes an excellent pie. Fruit average 10-20
pounds in weight.
It is said to have
first been listed in 1847 by New York seedsman Grant Thorburn as
Green Striped Bell and most likely re-named by Burpee in 1883 to
Tennessee Sweet Potato.
Our
original seed source was from the USDA,
NSL 5197
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