[rightly_dividing]

Cocozelle: is that the large, 24” and 15lb squash that I see at some veggies stands here in Texas? That picture looked like a baby pic of ones that we see here.

[ApplegateRanch]

Cocozelle, AKA Italian Marrow Squash, is very similar to zukes, and may be what zukes were developed from; or may be a variety of zuke.

1. a squash plant having a dark green fruit with skin mottled with light green or yellow. 2. a squash resembling zucchini.

Normal picking sized zuke in back; approximately 'equally young' cocozelle in front...not my photo/squash.

Look what happened to my heirloom squash! They're enormous (biggest my husband and I have ever seen) and I finally harvested them. Organic cocozelle taste similar to zucchini but a little sweeter. You can purchase seeds from Botanical Interests. I donated the largest squash to our church food ministry because we have plenty, what will we do with them? (:

That gal, whoever she is, is holding mature cocozelle about the size of the ones that I grew in Southern California using rabbit manure compost that I mentioned earlier. Those bushes got to be over 4' high & 5'-6' across, with enormous leaves that made it easy to miss picking some until they were big enough to use as a canoe. Shucks; there were times those plants made my wife disappear while picking under them.