The Probert Encyclopaedia of Nature

PUMPKIN

The pumpkin or vegetable marrow (Cucurbita pepo, Cucurbita maxima) is several annual, creeping, trailing plants of the gourd genus with heart shaped five lobed leaves and a large egg-shaped or globose yellow-orange edible fruit which is popularly cooked and eaten as a vegetable or in a pie and also hollowed out to make lanterns for Halloween.
Research Pumpkin