Cucurbita galeottii is a plant species of the genus Cucurbita.[1][2][3] It is native to Oaxaca, Mexico.[4] It has not been domesticated.[5][6] There is very little known about this species.[7] Nee reports that the species is a xerophyte and that Bailey only saw the species in photographs. It is only known from specimens that "lack roots, female flowers, fruits and seeds".[2]
Cucurbita galeottii (ch'ako') is a wild form of squash with round or pear-shaped fruits similar to small bottle gourds, with a green skin and white/yellow stripes. Ch'ako is found along lowland roadsides of southern Mexico. The fruit is tough skinned and bitter, but the young greens are eaten boiled.[8]
References
^Bailey, Liberty Hyde (1943). "Species of Cucurbita". Gentes Herbarum. 6. Ithaca, NY: 267–322.
^Smith, Bruce D. (1992). Rivers of Change: Essays on Early Agriculture in Eastern North America. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press. p. 72. ISBN978-0-8173-5425-1.
