Red Kuri Squash is a teardrop-shaped, red-orange Japanese winter squash. This variety is very prolific and early. Weighing 3 to 7 pounds, Red Kuri Squash is perfect for home gardeners due to its small size, but big flavor. Red Kuri Squash has smooth, dry, sweet, and rich golden flesh. The flesh is perfect for roasting, purees, pies, and soups. Red Kuri Squash is also known as Orange Hokkaido or Baby Red Hubbard. Red Kuri Squash is perfectly proportioned for making pies and side dishes for warming winter meals. In field trials Red Kuri Squash showed the most resistance to cucumber beetles.