Now they've made fruit... and, honestly, I still really don't know what they are. I included the glasses in the photo to give some sense of scale:
They look like a gourd, but also something like a crook-neck squash. I have tried one sliced up raw while it was still tender, and it had the mild flavor and texture of a yellow crook-neck summer squash.
So that's good at least... they're edible. Still, I've never seen a squash that looked like these. Has anyone else?
Since you tried eating it, sounds like you could go either way....if you don't already have bushels of green & yellow squash to use up...you have a leg-up on a Thanksgiving centerpiece.
I think I saw some knobby looking squash in the Baker’s Creek catalog one time. Those look like a cross between summer squash and something else!