what is the difference between a pumpkin from a squash??

Answer 1

Pumpkin is a warm-season vegetable that can be grown throughout much of the United States. Besides being used as jack-o'-lanterns at Halloween, pumpkins are used to make pumpkin butter, pies, custard, bread, cookies and soup.

* What is the difference between a pumpkin and a squash?

There is much confusion about when to use the two terms. All squash, for example, in Australia are called pumpkins! Basically, the two names are used as generic terms to refer to many different forms of winter and summer squashes from the family Cucurbita.

Squash is usually divided into two categories:
Summer squash is picked young and has thin skin and soft flesh. Winter squash is left longer in the field or garden and has a hard skin (suitable for storing over the winter months) and flesh that is coarser. A pumpkin, therefore, is a variety of winter squash. There are many different varieties of pumpkins, several of which are associated with the Halloween Jack-o-Lantern.

What is the difference between a pumpkin and a squash?
A. It is all in what you call it. Varieties of each of the four species, discussed in this section are popularly called "pumpkins," and varieties of each are called "squash," more by tradition than by system. In fact, orange color sometimes helps determine what is a pumpkin. Two varieties of the same species, C. maxima, hold the records for the world's largest squash and pumpkin. The variety called squash is gray to green and larger one called a pumpkin is pinkish to orange. Shape may vary slightly, but these two freely inter-pollinate and are botanically pretty much identical. Unless you are dealing with specific rules or regulations at a show, you can pretty much interchange the words squash and pumpkin, though you can expect a fight with purists, no matter what you do.

Answer 2

A pumpkin is a squash .. There are summer season squash ( Yellow, Zucchini, Crookneck, etc. ) & wintry climate squash ( Pumpkin, Acorn, Turban , etc. ) summer season squash do no longer save properly ,as wintry climate squash could properly be saved for " over the wintry climate " in a funky dry section !!!!!!!!

Answer 3

pumpkins do not taste the same when put in the oven and really there is no differance except how you cook them and the spices you include in your reciepe

Answer 4

A pumkin is larger, oranger and comes with a horn of sorts.
the other is akin to tennis or handball ?

Answer 5

None except the color and the life of each once harvested.

Answer 6

They are both gourds, but of different classifications.