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"aem" > wrote in message
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> wrote:
>> Hi group,
>>
>> I was hoping that I could get an answer to a question. I tried various
>> Google searches and read many webpages about squash, but I haven't been
>> able to determine if butter squash and butternut squash are the same
>> thing. I know butternut squash is also called pumpkin squash...that's
>> the only thing I know for sure.
>
> I don't know of any squash called simply "butter" squash. I'd tend to
> think that's a recipe name, probably for summer squash(es). Butternut
> squash is a specific kind of winter, hard-shelled squash, which belongs
> to the same botanical family as the pumpkin and the cucumber. -aem

Not to forget that other winter squash, the buttercup.

Gabby