Name this Plant

[EllieMay]

Found this while bush hogging..thought it was watermelon.. has large prickly leafs with Yellow blooms like squash...but it’s not watermelon or squash. It’s white when you cut it open... and not just a not-ripe white.. my friends husband is a 74 yr old farmer and he says he’s never saw anything like it. The vine that’s attached to the “fruit” looks just like a pumpkin vine.
Stumped!!!

 

[Toddrickfl1]

Found this while bush hogging..thought it was watermelon.. has large prickly leafs with Yellow blooms like squash...but it’s not watermelon or squash. It’s white when you cut it open... and not just a not-ripe white.. my friends husband is a 74 yr old farmer and he says he’s never saw anything like it. The vine that’s attached to the “fruit” looks just like a pumpkin vine.
Stumped!!!

Picture this app said Pumpkin?

 

[Yvonne G]

It just looks like an immature pumpkin to me. What do the seeds inside look like?

 

[EllieMay]

Kind of like a cucumber?? But a pumpkin would make sense because every Halloween I throw the carved pumpkin guts in the pasture for my horses and deer. These are growing in an area that the rain water that runs down from the pasture gathers..AWESOME!

 

[Maro2Bear]

I’m guessing immature pumpkin as well. I have some “volunteer” UNID squash coming up.....first i thought zucchini.....then i thought pumpkin, but we now see that it is developing as acorn squash.

Good luck... let it grow!

 

[Bambam1989]

..or it could be a hybrid. Since the squash family can cross pollinate with each other if planted too close together. The resulting seed would be a hybrid.

 

[Maro2Bear]

..or it could be a hybrid. Since the squash family can cross pollinate with each other if planted too close together. The resulting seed would be a hybrid.

Wonder what a zucchini x acorn squash would look like!

 

[Bambam1989]

Wonder what a zucchini x acorn squash would look like!

I don't know. Had a watermelon and a zucchini cross once. It was a wonderfully vigorous plant... The watermelon sized fruit tasted awful though

 

[EllieMay]

So now I have to research pumpkin farming as well . Maybe they will be useful by Halloween...!l or at least provide some good greens for my critters.. LOL

 

[Tom]

I'm not a plant expert at all, but I've grown pumpkins and that is exactly what they looked like.

Can we see the leaves, vine and blooms?

 

[TammyJ]

Its pumpkin, I think!

 

[EllieMay]

That was the only melon and I broke it off the vine looking for others. I gave it to some one as a watermelon and they probably thought I was trying to poison them.. I felt like such an idiot!!

 

[Maro2Bear]

That was the only melon and I broke it off the vine looking for others. I gave it to some one as a watermelon and they probably thought I was trying to poison them.. I felt like such an idiot!!

Ogh my gosh... watermelon?

 

[Tom]

Sure looks like pumpkin to me.

I had never heard that different species would cross pollinate and make hybrids. That's interesting.

@Iochroma What do you think?

 

[Lyn W]

if you google young pumpkin this comes up

 

[EllieMay]

Well if I’m lucky, I won’t have to buy pumpkins to carve this year! Thanks y’all for guiding me through my ignorance

 

[EllieMay]

if you google young pumpkin this comes up
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Mine was prettier though

 

[EllieMay]

I’m guessing immature pumpkin as well. I have some “volunteer” UNID squash coming up.....first i thought zucchini.....then i thought pumpkin, but we now see that it is developing as acorn squash.

Good luck... let it grow!

Maybe we could trade some pumpkin for hybrid squash!!! Lol

 

[RosemaryDW]

As someone who grew up eating (and hating) lots of what we kids referred to as “squish,” I can tell you the fruit of a cross pollinated zucchini/pumpkin looks sad and misshapen.

This in no way stops your mother from insisting you eat it.

It still tastes like squish. It took many years before I could appreciate squash of any kind. Still struggling with winter squash.

 

[Iochroma]

Sure looks like pumpkin to me.

I had never heard that different species would cross pollinate and make hybrids. That's interesting.

@Iochroma What do you think?

pumpkin