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Can you tell me the name of this squash, please, when it is ripe, and if it is edible?

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  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    edited October 2023
    Is it hard or soft skinned?  If soft, maybe tromboncino zucchini?  If hard, maybe some hybrid of a Green-Striped Cushaw?  Where did you get the seeds?  

    Utah, USA.
  • brentwood nigelbrentwood nigel Posts: 10
    It isn’t a tromboncino - I have several of those, and have grown those before.  The mottling is in a sorry of stripes form.  I was given the seedlings along with the tromboncinos and another, smaller, flatter, bright orangey squash. I haven’t seen the chap who gave them to me for ages to ask, though!
  • diggersjodiggersjo Posts: 172
    We pick them off early and have grown them for a few years now...


    It does not look like a tromboncino to me either.
    Yorkshire, ex Italy and North East coast. Growing too old for it!
  • EustaceEustace Posts: 2,290
    I think it is this; looks ornamental.
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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I thought that too, but the marks on the speckled swan are horizontal in all the images I looked at and the SS has a bulge where it joins the stem representing the head of the swan.
    But I can't find anything that is a better match.

    Can you let us know the answer to the question that @Blue Onion posted above?
    That would help narrow it down


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  • brentwood nigelbrentwood nigel Posts: 10
    it’s definitely a hard skin. I have looked at another one, and the markings run in a line from top to bottom on the squash. 
  • war garden 572war garden 572 Posts: 664
    try looking here:
    The compleat squash : a passionate grower's guide to pumpkins, squash, and gourds

    https://archive.org/details/compleatsquashpa0000gold/page/n5/mode/2up
  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    Could have come from a self saved seed, a hybrid of some sort - potentially crossed with an ornamental.  I would err on the side of caution and not eat it.  
    Utah, USA.
  • war garden 572war garden 572 Posts: 664
    it is a speckled swan gourd 
    https://hosstools.com/products/speckled-swan-gourd?variant=46213268963638
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