Abstract:

‘Longyuan Hongguan’is a precocious red-skinned pumpkin variety，which was hybrid by two high isolated breeding inbred lines（‘2011-11-7’and‘2011-30-6’）from Japan and Russia. The fruit of‘Longyuan Hongguan’is thick and round，and the peel colour is bright red. The average weight of single fruit is about 2.0 kg. The pulp is saffron yellow，fragrant and sweet. It lasted about 78 d from seeding to harvest，and its yield is about 37 500 kg · hm-2. It has excellent capacities of fruit-setting and adaptability，and has powdery mildew and downy mildew resistance. It can be edible vegetable，processing，view and admire，and so on.

Key words: pumpkin, precocity, hybrid, cultivar