Guatemalan Green Ayote Seeds, Tropical Moschata Heirloom

A rare Guatemalan landrace ayote, vine borer resistant, heat tolerant, and found in almost no U.S. catalogs.

🛡️ Vine borer resistance: Excellent, the solid stems of Cucurbita moschata resist the squash vine borer that kills most common pumpkins.

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What is ayote? Ayote is the Central American word for squash, from the Nahuatl ayotli. It is used across Guatemala and its neighbors for several winter squash, most often Cucurbita moschata, the same species as butternut and calabaza. This page is the Guatemalan green ayote, a round to slightly flattened landrace with mottled green skin.

Guatemalan Green Ayote is a Central American moschata landrace, a true working variety selected by Guatemalan home gardeners for generations. "Ayote" is the regional word for this kind of squash, and this particular one is almost impossible to find in U.S. seed catalogs. If you want something genuinely rare with real cultural roots, this is it.

The fruit is round to slightly flattened with mottled green skin and dense, rich, sweet deep orange flesh. It's used across Central American cooking, stews, sweet dishes, traditional preparations, and the flavor is noticeably richer and more concentrated than grocery-store pumpkin.

Like everything in our catalog, it's Cucurbita moschata, which means vine borer resistance is built into the genetics. Thick fibrous stems block SVB larvae. In Kansas, where vine borer pressure peaks June through July, moschata is the difference between harvest and loss. Vine borer resistance is kind of our thing at Autumn Prairie Pumpkins, and Guatemalan Green Ayote is one of the rarest and most culturally interesting varieties that delivers it.