Hybrid Butternut
- Canopy provides good fruit cover
- Excellent fruit shape and size uniformity
- Bright orange firm flesh
- Small seed cavity
- Excellent fruit set
- IR: ZYMV / WMV / PRSV.
Produces blocky ended fruit on a manageable vine. Delicious flavour.
Fruit are tapered to the stem end. Reasonable keeping quality.
Hybrid Butternut Pumpkin
Suitable for processing
- High yielding butternut large type
- Will make larger size than most butternuts even under cool conditions
- Orange sweet flesh with good storage ability.
Additional comments and cultural notes
Resistance key:
- High recovery makes this variety an ideal processor
- Good disease resistance
- Excellent fruit shape and size uniformity
- Long, blocky shape
- Skin colour is tan colour at maturity and very smooth
- Fruit size is 1 – 1.2kg (18 x 8cm)
- Excellent internal quality
- Dark orange, firm, sweet flesh with a small seed cavity
- Outstanding yield potential.
Hybrid Butternut Pumpkin
- Excellent fruit shape and size uniformity.
Overall package appears well balanced - Skin colour is tan at maturity and very smooth
- Outstanding internal quality, bright orange, firm, sweet flesh, with a small seed cavity
- Fruit set is excellent
- Appears to have good field tolerance to Powdery Mildew. Healthy plants assists in achieving a high yield potential.
Hybrid Butternut Pumpkin
Cucurbita moschata
- Excellent fruit shape and size uniformity. It is similar to Butternut Waltham in fruit shape but is much more uniform
- Good internal colour with a small seed cavity
- Average fruit weight 1.0kg. Dimensions approx. 19 x 9cm. Larger fruit size than Tiana but smaller than Jacqueline
- Fruit set is excellent contributing to outstanding yield potential. Averages between 3 – 5 fruit set per plant.