Mystery Vine (forum)

Kath starts with ...
This vine is growing as a weed on my neighbours place. Does anyone know what it is please?
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Time: 1st August 2008 5:23pm

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Dekka says...
Kath are they fruit or flowers?

Time: 1st August 2008 8:22pm

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Kath says...
They are fruits, about the size of an egg. Grow on a scrambling ground vine. Look like they are in the Cucurbitaceae family.
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Time: 2nd August 2008 7:34am

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another anon says...
Looks very much like what we call pig melon over here. If it is, it needs pulling up and disposing of as it IS a weed. Over here it grows on the side of the road!

Time: 2nd August 2008 8:16am

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Dekka says...
It might be some sort of Marah. Marah macrocarpus maybe.

Time: 2nd August 2008 8:53am

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Kath says...
Thanks Dekka,
I looked these up,

Wikiepedia says
Seeds of the manroot are large, hard, and very smooth. Southern California Manroot has larger, longer seeds that the other manroot species except for Marah horridus. Fruit usually hold 4 or more seeds.

These fruits have lots of seeds, like a regular cucumber. It could be variation, it is definitely a wild cucumber of some sort.

Time: 4th August 2008 6:36pm

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Dekka says...
Kath, I found this picture of "Marah horridus" that looks very similar to yours.

Also googled 'wild cucumber' and found a similar one in green but no more info other than it was photographed in Mexico...not much help.
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Time: 4th August 2008 9:56pm

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Anonymous says...
It an african horned cucumber.

Time: 5th August 2008 10:51am

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Kath says...
Anonymous, it is not an African Horned Cucumber. They look like this.
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Time: 6th August 2008 7:14am

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John says...
It's the doemsticated afrcian horned cucumber.

Time: 7th August 2008 12:16pm

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Kath says...
John, does this mean the fruits are edible?

Time: 8th August 2008 9:18am

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John says...
Yes, places like diggers sell the seed, you can't bring it into WA, but why would you when you could grow a normal cucumber.

Time: 8th August 2008 2:56pm

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Kath says...
John, my neighbours weed is not the same as the plant the diggers sell, they sell seeds from the African Horned Melon - Cucumis metuliferus
Also called the African Horned Cucumber
Which looks like this.
I think my neighbours weed is a wild cucumber of some sort and I am not going to try eating it.
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Time: 8th August 2008 5:48pm

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