And within the hour, vernacular seedgeek intelligence from within @agrariansharing's 100% volunteer-driven movement, updates and corrects our group understanding of this crop type. My original intelligence? From #nativeseedsearch, hardly a lightweight.
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Henry Storch Oh we eat the flesh too... Y+k+ ña'mi(roughly translated "sweet potato squash) in Tu'un savi(Mixtec) we grow several dual purpose strains one crossed with 'Illinois longneck' to get it more production at our latitude. Also some strains have the dark seed cavity/flesh trait that shows up in ayote negro C. moschata Chris Homanics Yeah the flesh is definitely consumed! There are strains of these well up into northern n america, especially Appalachia. There are also tropical varieties with hullless seeds some of which are sold as pepitas here in the US. Argyrosperma was called Mixta as it shows traits from its two parent genomes - pepo and moschata. Henry Storch Chris Homanics my best hard shell ayote negro I'm suspicious is an interspecific cross with C. argyrosperma. It seems like one of those spectrum situations especially back down in Oaxaca
