id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_73bmeugbyzf6zipuuldqeagpna HARRY S. PARIS First Known Image of Cucurbita in Europe, 1503–1508 2006 7 .pdf application/pdf 6385 597 72 Images of fruits of two Cucurbita species, drawn between 1515 and 1518, were recently � Findings An even earlier image of Cucurbita exists in the prayer book, Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne, Farnesina a decade later, this image does not depict an esculent and does not constitute evidence of early European texana in the wild, the idea is considered that the image was based on an offspring of a plant found growing Key words: Cucurbita pepo, Lagenaria siceraria, Cucumis sativus, Bryonia dioica, Cucurbitaceae, crop dispersal, The book is catalogued as Ms. Latin 9474 at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Table 1) and can be browsed and French labels of the plants in the Grandes Heures next part, the plant images from the Grandes Heures. Therefore, the gourd plant illustrated in the Grandes Heures was recognized as new or Jussieu's cataloguing of the plant as a colocynth or coloquinte having pyriform fruit and yellow flowers does ./cache/work_73bmeugbyzf6zipuuldqeagpna.pdf ./txt/work_73bmeugbyzf6zipuuldqeagpna.txt