Vegetable Yellow. Cucurbita pepo, Zucchini or Courgette, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

This year the Hortus Botanicus has also planted a very pleasant vegetable garden. One of the plants brightening it even when the weather is the gloom of Spring is the golden yellow flower of Cucurbita pepo, Zucchini or Courgette. The vegetable hails from the Americas but gained general European kitchen favor in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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