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My zucchini looks like a pumpkin.


My zucchini looks like a pumpkin.

by No-Horse6154

39 Comments

  1. No-Horse6154

    The plant was growing zucchinis fine (giant ones when left to overgrow). Then, it caught powdery mildew, so I stripped off most leaves. After that, this and another zucchini grew like this.

  3. No_Measurement6478

    I’m willing to bet that’s a pumpkin or squash of some variety

  8. BetPuzzleheaded452

    It probably got cross pollinated. A happy little bee gave you a fun little accident

  9. BEBookworm

    Correction, your pumpkin looks like a pumpkin.

  10. allidoizwin_soulfood

    Squashes hybridize very easily, your zucchini was likely pollinated by a pumpkin plant

  11. tcg-reddit

    I don’t agree with what you’re doing. I’ve seen day of the triffids.

  12. burneralt8675309

    Probably because it’s a pumpkin and not a zucchini

  14. PostHarvestLogic

    That’s a pumpkin. The stem gives it away.

  20. Inevitable_Tank9505

    Is that Ronde de Nice? Looks like it.

  22. Haunting_Safe_5386

    and with the light it kind looks like its floating

  23. Independent-Dig-3963

    Looks like a Japanese pumpkin. They look orange inside and taste cross between pumpkin and sweet potato. It makes the most delicious pies and soups.

  25. OrdinaryBicycle3

    It looks like a tatume squash to me. Post some pictures if you cut it open!

  26. lightningspree

    This is a Ronde de Nice – a zucchini that is round, and if left on the vine, takes on some pumpkin-like qualities.

    There’s no real taxonomical difference between zucchini and pumpkins – *curcubita pepo* is usually what we call zucchini, but the popular sugar pie pumpkin and many other varieties are also members of this species. But most cultivars of *c maxima* and *c mochata* can also be harvested early for a tender, zucchini-like fruit.

  27. FreakishlyGreek

    🎶Zucchini looks like a pumpkin (that, that)🎶

  28. UndevelopedMoose222

    This subreddit never ceases to amaze me. It is clear that this is a basil.

  29. VegetableBusiness897

    It also looks like it’s levitating?

  30. BluZDragon

    Don’t you mean your basil looks like a pumpkin?

  33. HardyMenace

    The CSA I’m a part of calls these 8 ball zucchini since they’re about the size of a magic 8 ball. To me they tasted no different.

  35. No-Horse6154

    Hi y’all! It’s cool to see others think this is so wild like we do. I immediately added some explanatory info comment after posting the photos but it got buried.

    This plant has grown summer squash on it before. At least some of these came from the same plant before. It is NOT pumpkin!! I see that I’m getting some heat b/c ppl think it’s pumpkin and think I was mis-IDing it. It’s definitely a type of squash (to which zucchini belongs).

    https://preview.redd.it/lkdkefkakirf1.jpeg?width=1512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=664d90e225be0aabb9abf691bcb9daa825d6d01b

  38. khyamsartist

    Squash are crazy. You think you plant one thing and get another. It can’t all be the gardener, it happens too often. I grew my first squash this year and am fascinated by how the stalks start looking like zucchini as they mature, on a crookneck squash. The thing was huge, it wanted all of the space.

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