Richmond River Longkeeper

Unique variety! Market fruit pale green with dark green spotting. Superficial ribbing. Black spines on moderately elevated warts. Pale green flesh. Unusual flavor; tastes like summer squash. Relatively dry flesh, crisp. Very thin skin. Fruit can be harvested for eating when quite large. Small seed cavity. Fruit 5-7" long, 1.6-2" wide, and 5-10oz. Seed mature fruit brownish yellow with fine cracking throughout; extremely large; 8-13" long, 3-6" wide, and 3-6lbs. Three or four locules per fruit. Very late maturing when grown in 2014 at Heritage Farm. Donated to SSE by Guy Dirix (BELG DI G) who obtained the variety from AUST LA R. SSE Accession # 109405