What kind of pumpkin is Halloween pumpkin? Ajiao Li Bai guide melon North melon are all pumpkins? Come and meet the pumpkin family.

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Halloween protagonist ─ pumpkin, also known as golden melon, pumpkin, papaya, golden wax gourd, rice melon, nutritious and sweet, can be used as a vegetable or staple food, from pulp to seeds. The pumpkin family on the dinner table is huge, from the common papaya type pumpkin and chestnut pumpkin family to ornamental pumpkins of different sizes and shapes, and even the chlamys farreri are members of the pumpkin family. Pumpkins harvested from November to February are the sweetest, and different cuisines are suitable for different pumpkin varieties. Let's get to know the members of the pumpkin family! Where is the best place for pumpkins? Please click here)

Photo provided / Xie Mingfeng Halloween necessary Jack-o'- lantern, turned out to be a relative of Chestnut Pumpkin

Halloween pumpkin carving from Irish folklore, about a man named Stingy Jack and the story of the devil, Stingy Jack teased the devil, so that after death heaven and hell do not want to take him, nowhere to go Stingy Jack kept looking for a place to rest, he put charcoal in the holes in the white radish, as a lantern to light the way forward.

Since then, the Irish hollowed out potatoes or turnips and put them in candles, while the English used beets to make hand-held lanterns modeled on Stingy Jack, and then in the 1840s, new immigrants from the American continent discovered a better material-pumpkins, which evolved into Jack-o-lanterns.

The pumpkin used to make Jack-o-lantern is a kind of western pumpkin. Liang Guosheng, director of the vegetable and fruit class of Nongyou Seedling Company, explained: "it is related to the common chestnut pumpkin on the market. The kind of pumpkin used for Halloween is a relatively large variety. There are not many people in China, because the fiber is relatively thick and not very delicious, so it is usually used to watch."

Photo credit: tubblesnap Too early? Via Photo Source: photopin (license) pumpkins, pumpkins and chlamys are all pumpkins.

There are five kinds of pumpkins: Chinese pumpkin, western pumpkin (Indian pumpkin), American pumpkin, sunspot pumpkin and Mexican pumpkin. Among them, the most common ones in China are Chinese pumpkins and western pumpkins. Ah Cheng, Gillian and other native pumpkins bought in the vegetable market belong to Chinese pumpkins, while the higher prices of Dongli and chestnut pumpkins belong to western pumpkins.

American pumpkins originating in North America, the common ones in Taiwan are summer pumpkin, winter pumpkin and ornamental pumpkin, among which the common chlamys farreri on the market belong to summer pumpkin; a variety of summer pumpkin "golden towel gourd" is classified to winter pumpkin because of harvesting ripe fruit, and winter pumpkin is seldom planted in China, among which the more well-known golden towel gourd variety is "Baiqiu"; ornamental pumpkin with protruding skin sometimes with different sizes and shapes.

The black pumpkin native to South America gets its name because of the black seeds in the fruit, and its outer skin has a white-green pattern like watermelon, also known as "North Melon." Mexican pumpkins, which are used as edible vegetables in Central and South America, are relatively rare in Taiwan.