Sorry if it’s obvious, all those plant identifiers online are garbage.
hibiscuschild
Commenting to follow cause I haven’t been able to figure it out either, looks interesting
MappingChick
Maybe Cochlospermum wrightii?
Songbird154
Maybe a “jatropha cathartica”…?
AcanthisittaGrand528
Mexican Yellowshow
Mostly-carbon-based
It looks like Audrey from the shop of horrors!
Justin_Case4315
My plant app says
Cassava
(Manihot esculenta)
Secret_Performer8024
Google is identifying it as Balloon Vine (Cardiospermum halicacabum), also known as Heartseed or Love-in-a-puff.
gremlin029
From ChatGPT:
This plant is a young luffa (loofah) gourd plant.
The distinctive features I see:
• The fruit looks like a small developing gourd (smooth, green, oval-shaped).
• The leaves are palmately lobed with deep cuts, which is characteristic of luffa species (Luffa aegyptiaca or Luffa acutangula).
• It’s being grown in a pot, which is common for starting gourds before transplanting.
If left to mature, the fruit will grow much larger (up to 1–2 feet long), and when dried, the fibrous interior can be used as a natural sponge.
Peggy7351
In China they call loofah Winter melon. And it’s delicious cooked sort of like zucchini. I don’t know if this is it however.
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Sorry if it’s obvious, all those plant identifiers online are garbage.
Commenting to follow cause I haven’t been able to figure it out either, looks interesting
Maybe Cochlospermum wrightii?
Maybe a “jatropha cathartica”…?
Mexican Yellowshow
It looks like Audrey from the shop of horrors!
My plant app says
Cassava
(Manihot esculenta)
Google is identifying it as Balloon Vine (Cardiospermum halicacabum), also known as Heartseed or Love-in-a-puff.
From ChatGPT:
This plant is a young luffa (loofah) gourd plant.
The distinctive features I see:
• The fruit looks like a small developing gourd (smooth, green, oval-shaped).
• The leaves are palmately lobed with deep cuts, which is characteristic of luffa species (Luffa aegyptiaca or Luffa acutangula).
• It’s being grown in a pot, which is common for starting gourds before transplanting.
If left to mature, the fruit will grow much larger (up to 1–2 feet long), and when dried, the fibrous interior can be used as a natural sponge.
In China they call loofah Winter melon. And it’s delicious cooked sort of like zucchini. I don’t know if this is it however.