Date Photo Taken: 10/07/2012
Location: Sandy Springs, Georgia
Posted By: Vicki of Sandy Springs
Notes:
Found climbing way up a pine tree and over to adjacent large bushes with these cucumber-like things hanging down that were about 18 inches to two feet long. Never, ever saw anything like this before. Can’t find anything about it on the internet either. There were no such vegetables growing nearby, not cucumbers nor squash nor gourds, nothing like these.
stone Unregistered says:
Looks like luffa. I’ve had them climb pine trees too…
October 8th, 2012 at 8:17 amKirk Unregistered says:
It looks like a luffa sponge
Luffa acutangula
October 8th, 2012 at 8:22 amVicki Unregistered says:
YES, that is it!!! Thanks! It sure does go through a metamorphosis, doesn’t it! I don’t know if the pods will ripen before frost (turn tan color). Hope to harvest the seeds.
Vicki of Sandy Springs
October 8th, 2012 at 4:59 pm