Name that plant
Details:
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Date Photo Taken
07 / 14 / 2013
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Season Photo Was Taken
Summer
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City
Chesapeake
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State
Virginia
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Posted by
mhaye017
Notes:
My mother in law thought she planted cucumbers, but this came in instead. The fruit/vegetable is fuzzy to the touch. The flowers are yellow.
Comments
parityanimal Master Identifier says:
Hmmm. Additional research on that actually indicates that cucumbers generally only cross pollinate with other varieties of cucumbers, so I’d have to go with stone and say she planted some kind of melon instead. Or it’s a very unusual cucumber!
July 15th, 2013 at 9:15pm
parityanimal Master Identifier says:
Was she planting from purchased seed or trying to use seed from last year’s crop? That family of vine is notorious for cross breeding and if it is from last year’s crop, it could be a cucumber crossed with who knows what…
July 15th, 2013 at 9:42pm
stone Master Identifier says:
Looks like can’t elope… (muskmelon). They’re ripe when they ‘slip’ the stem…
July 15th, 2013 at 9:01am