Pumpkin (Franchise)

Pumpkins are a vegetable that primarily appears in the game, School of Dragons.

Appearance
Pumpkins are vined plants with large lobed leaves and usually large orange round fruit. The fruit has been bred to come in a variety of sizes and also some color variation, such as all white on the outside.

Pumpkins (Cucurbita pepo) are actually a cultivar, or variety, of Squash. Commonly, though, they are considered separate vegetables, even if that is botanically incorrect. Squash (and pumpkins) originated in Central America - Mexico - thousands of years ago, and were only brought to the rest of the world with Spanish colonization. Vikings would not have encountered pumpkins.

Function
In both the Franchise and real life, pumpkins are eaten in a variety of dishes such as pie, and also used for decoration in the Fall, often for jack-o-lanterns. Jack-o-lanterns are pumpkins which have had a face carved into them, gutted of seeds, then a light source placed inside which shines out through the carved parts.

In reality, roasted pumpkins seeds are also eaten and make a good snack.

School of Dragons
Pumpkins are a harvestable crop the player can grow in their farms, and use to complete Farm Jobs for rewards. A bag of pumpkin seeds cost 96 coins and yield 6 pumpkins in 60 minutes.

During Harvest Haunt and Dreadfall season in the Franchise (corresponding with Halloween and Thanksgiving), limited White Pumpkin seeds will be released for the player to grow and harvest. White Pumpkin seeds cost 12 coins and produce 6 pumpkins in 30 minutes.