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Cantaloupe

Photo by ccb450
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Field Notes

Description:

Vine with heart shaped leaves and yellow blooms

Habitat:

Compost pile

Notes:

This spouted up in our compost pile and was wondering what it could be. Perhaps squash?

Species ID Suggestions

cucumber

Cucumis sativus

Comments (2)

It actually ended up being cantaloupe! That was a shocker!
I said cucumber because of the flower size. The squash would have flowers that would be really large in comparison to Cucumber.. Nick
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PublishedJuly 18, 2011

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