The zucchini is a plant of the family of the Cucurbitaceae . It is actually a whole of cultivars of the species Cucurbita pepo and subspecies Cucurbita pepo ssp. pepo . Zucchinis and genuine pumpkin belong to the same subspecies.

One indicates the plant and the Fruit of this plant by the same name. The zucchini, more lengthened and smaller, is a very young Courge gathered, well before its maturity, from where its name which is the diminutive (formed using the suffix - ette ).

The zucchini is a fruit of lengthened or round form, and green or yellow color. It with the pace of large a Cucumber. Although it is about a fruit to the botanical direction of the term because it contains the Graine S of the plant, it is commonly used like a Légume.

The zucchini is easy to cultivate in a family kitchen garden. Simplest and surest consists in mending in spring of young seedlings bought with a professional. The adult plant covers a circle approximately a meter in diameter. A foot produces several fruits over one period of several months. Once formed, a fruit grows bigger quickly and passes in a few days of zucchini lends to consume with less tender marrow to crunch.

The zucchini is eaten cooked or raw as eats cucumber. It is current in the gastronomy the Mediterranean. Cooked, she eats pulp and accompanied by other vegetables, as in the Ratatouille, jumped, fried, stuffed, in Gratin or soup. In soup, it replaces potato.

Its flowers are also consumed, stuffed or out of fritter, in the area niçoise, like in Italy.

There exists for zucchini different color. Most known is of course green but there exists about it of yellow color which is much softer than green zucchini.