Fruit or veggie? Can anyone name it? Where can it be found? Any interesting story? Pls. dont game for points..

Question

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Answer 1

I grow weary of saying this, but it really helps with identification if you can tell us at LEAST what continent you found the plant on. It's a big planet we live on and there are over a quarter of a million flowering plant species out there. Being able to narrow it down in any way at all helps. Information about environment, growth habit and so forth also help endlessly.

And those are really crummy photos. Can you post larger images at all?

Anyway from what little you have given us it appears to be one of the Sechium cultivars. These plants are related to cucumbers abd are variously called chokos or chayotes and originate in Central America. However they have been cultivated as vegetables for thousands of years and are available in a wide variety of forms. Some forms have stiff bristles others are smooth. Some are almost round, others are elongated.

In the case of the fruit you have photographed it appears to have been stung by a flower wasps. As a result the flower ened of the fruit is malformed, producing that phallic chape. That is not normal. If you want more fruit You are advised to cut this fruit off and burn it before the developing wasps hatch and spread. Of course if you just want the plant as a novelty then by all means leave it.

Answer 2

tell you what, I just spent twenty minutes looking, and if this not a joke congratulations you have a super mutation on your hands. The closes I could find is a round melon crossed with a long melon, that is if I was in the right direction. Look at the leaves, they can steer you in the right direction and if there are any flowers left look at those, the flower of the fruit tells all.

Answer 3

this is just a guess but i would say something went wrong when this apple or other fruit formed and is actually 2 apples formed together notice the stem at the lighter part of the fruit. and the must be another holding it to the tree. I would venture to guess this may be the same principle as conjoined twins. but with fruit.

Answer 4

I'm going by the leaves and the way this is growing on a vine.

It looks like some kind of gourd. This would make it a vegetable.

Answer 5

never seen it before
but if this helps i'll give you some easy definitions to go by:
A fruit contains its own seeds to reproduce (ex: tomatoes, cucumbers, apples, oranges, etc...)
Vegetables do not

*Note: bananas are engineered to be seedless like watermelons