[Twotone]

[353FMG]

Has she been spitting watermellon seeds in the garden?

[Immerito]

Perhaps someone on your gardening list can identify this plant.

[BuffaloJack]

Looks like one of my wife’s bitter melons.

[mrreaganaut]

I vote pumpkin, too. The fruit should be the same color as the blossoms.

[jjotto]

Might be a volunteer seed from some hybrid squash that’s reverted to its components. In that case, neither the plant nor the fruit will be exactly recognizable, and the fruit will look and taste like exactly what it is, a random cross between several members of the squash family. And it probably won’t taste very good.

[Red_Devil 232]

Pinging the Gardeners - Leaves and flower look like a squash of some sort.

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[Cvengr]

[Daffynition]

Looks like a squash. You can eat the blossoms, which is counterproductive.

In our garden by my front steps a vine started and I didn't know what it was, but now it looks like a watermelon. Musta self-seeded when the kids were sitting on the front steps having a watermelon seed spitting contest, is my guess.

I'm afraid our growing season isn't going to be long enough for us to have *fruit* of any size.

Gardening is *like a box of chocolates....*

[razorback-bert]

Nothing to fear, the SWAT team will tell you what it is, when you appear in court.

[rockinqsranch]

The petals are too round to be Zuchinni, and as well Pumpkin.

Without seeing any other evidence my best guess by memory, which is dubious would be a Summer Squash.

[Vendome]

Eat some and get back to me.....

[Patriot Babe]

becareful it could become The Day of the Triffids =)

[autumnraine]

Zuchini

[OldNewYork]

My guess was zucchini too, but it could be some kind of hybrid as well. Whatever it is, I think most people have it in the ballpark, squash, pumpkin, zucchini, etc. Wait ‘til it fruits - it will pretty likely be nicely edible.

[djf]

Certainly a squash/curcurbit.

Unknown type, probably impossible to tell just from the pics.

[redhead]

zucchini(or other summer squash)

[jespasinthru]

It looks like a vine melon to me, maybe cantalope or honeydew. But you need to get some plant fungicide and spray it before the fruit comes in, because those kinds of plants are very prone to white leaf mold. That would make the whole plant wither before it fruits.

[tubebender]

Did your aunt plant a highbred squash last year this is a offspring of some ancient gourd?

[thecodont]

Pumpkin had a love affair with a zucchini squash. :)

The fruit will be oblong and striped green. Fry it up like zucchini!

[JudyM]

Sure looks like it belongs somewhere in the squash family.