It also has a very interesting deeply-lobed and ribbed shape, reminiscent of its gourd ancestors. Though it's difficult to peel or cube, it's excellent baked or stuffed. The creamy white skin is mottled and striped with dark green and is very attractive to serve. Dark green in color with a pumpkin orange flesh. The fruits are rounded with a buttoned turban at the blossom end, and are 3-5 pounds on a long vine.
Flavor is sweet and memorable.
A hybrid buttercup squash that offers three advantages over the o.p. Second, its vines are semi-bush, not as sprawling as others, so it will require less space and allows denser plantings. Third, its fruit have a reduced button or turban on the blossom end, giving you more quality meat per fruit. Weighing 3 to 5 lbs. Apparently this variety is much favored on the West Coast and we can see why.