Pumpkin ID please

kippsattacks · September 2021

Hi all,
Could anyone help to id these guys, please? I have few other shapes and they are all pretty small. Could they be some kind of decorative pumpkins? are they edible?

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/6030279/uploads/editor/27/essx671sk7l5.jpeg

philippasmith2 · September 2021

Did you buy seeds of edible or decorative ? There are so many different varieties of both these days but they look more like Gourds to me.

amancalledgeorge · September 2021

They both look like decorative varieties to me...but apparently you can eat them, as long as you find a nice way to cook them 😉
https://www.mic.com/articles/156931/can-you-eat-decorative-gourds-the-answer-to-the-question-you-never-thought-to-ask

kippsattacks · September 2021

Thanks, folks, those must be gourds. I've originally labeled them as courgette Green bush, only later discovering that only one of them was an actual courgette plant while others looked more like a pumpkin plant. I must have somehow mixed them up with a packet of trailing/tall mix.

Tack · September 2021

My aunt, in Germany where many decorative gourds are popular, warned me not to eat them. I did some research and they may present a higher chance of cucurbitacin poisoning, as experienced by Tim Dowling with cougettes. I would give them a tiny lick taste cautiously first, if bitter don't eat.https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jul/17/tim-dowling-homegrown-courgettes-poisoned-us-all

msqingxiao · September 2021

They look so pretty that I wouldn't want to eat them...

Pumpkin ID please

Posts