Cucurbita pepo

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  RHS Plants for Pollinators plants

  This plant will provide nectar and pollen for bees and the many other types of pollinating insects.

  It is included in an evolving list of plants carefully researched and chosen by RHS experts. Divided into 3 groups these lists, linked below, are maintained by a team of RHS staff and are reviewed annually.

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marrow

This is the original parent plant, from which many cultivars of courgette, summer and winter squash, pumpkins and gourds have been bred. The tender annual plants can be trailing or bushy. They have yellow flowers and both male and female flowers are born on the same plant, the female flowers have a small immature fruit behind the flower. Fruit can be green like courgettes, cream, yellow or orange like pumpkins