Everwilde Farms - 40 Gray Zucchini Summer Squash Seeds - Gold Vault Seed Packet

Gray Zucchini has gray mottled skin and firm, mild flesh that is tasty, crisp, and tender when harvested from under 8" long. This variety is an excellent high-quality shipper that is especially popular in Mexico and the Southwest. The open semi-spiny bush type plant bears cylindrical fruits that taper slightly to the stem end and take 55 days until harvest. History records that Columbus carried this then unfamiliar member of the cucumber family back to Europe after his first voyage. In Italy it acquired the name "zucchino," meaning a small squash; the French name for a zucchini, which the English later adopted, is "courgette." Italian immigrants later brought the zucchini back to the United States, where it became the most popular and commonly available variety of summer squash.