I have asked a few people I know and gotten multiple different answers so I’m hoping maybe someone here can give me a better idea. This popped up next to my fence randomly and I need some help identifying it. Nothing was planted there, it’s not near our flowers or garden, and we have never planted anything that looks like it before. The vine is very sticky and prickly if that helps anyone. I have my assumptions on what it might be but I’ll see if that matches what anyone says.
by htownhunter
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Looks like a cucumber or squash
Pumpkin or Squash
More than likely a squash. Love me some squash blossoms.
It’s a squash, but we won’t know what kind until it produces fruit.
Even then we may not be able to identify it easily, since squash cross-pollinates and hybridizes very easily.
Looks like a cucumber plant to me
100% [Cucurbita Family](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucurbita). Aside from that, you just have to wait and see. They all look so similar at this stage.
How wide is that flower? Hard to tell scale. Squash or pumpkin of some sort
Looks exactly like my pumpkins
The blossoms can be stuffed, battered, and fried. So just because you don’t know what kind of a fruit it might produce, you could still make some use out of it.
Squash of some sort, most likely. We thought ours was a spaghetti squash when it gave us a fruit, but then it was watermelon and right now we’re pretty sure pumpkin. Could also be a cucumber
Look for a female flower and take a photo of the baby fruit attached to the flower!
Cucumber imo
Definitely cucurbit, but no clue what type. I’d wing it with squash rather than marrow or cucumber tho.
Could be a pumpkin. It looks like you won’t know until you see fruit.
Find a female flower that’s how you’ll know.
It’s a squash of some sort.
This is in the pumpkin/squash family. Female flowers will have a mini fruit at the base. Tickle it with pollen from the male flower and that mini fruit will grow. If it’s not pollinated it will rot.
Cucumber
most likely poision ivy, crush leaves and use as a salve. helps against sunburns
That looks remarkably like my pumpkin plant! A squash of some sort for sure.
Ah, the mysterious world of squash. A delicious enigma!
Definitely a squash of some kind. Many people are saying cucumber but cukes’ flowers are smaller.
Put my money on butternut
Looks like my pumpkin plants.
This is a squash of some sort. Pumpkin, zucchini (probably), yellow squash, gourd, whatever. It is a squash, and will do squash things if you let it continue growing. I don’t really know how to tell the difference between them once they are growing, but before they start to produce small fruits. I only know what I’ve planted, and if I forget, it’s up to nature to tell me once I’m harvesting zucchini or yellow squash or gourds. Hopefully zucchini. Because that means chocolate zucchini bread. XD
Don’t worry, even the squash can’t decide what kind it wants to be!
Its a squash
Source: I have 5 varieties
Pumpkin. Or some kind of squash.
Looks more like a cucumber or a melon than a squash to me.
Can you get a picture of more of the flowers? Unopened or not.