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Trying to ID vine

18 years ago

Today at Boerner Botanical gardens in Milwaukee I saw a vine with elongated yellow fruits, approximately 15 inches long, heavily ribbed and hard to the touch. The overall shape is like a straight banana, but more plump.

The vine was climbing up a stone pillar, attaching itself by tendrils that anchored into cracks in the stone itself. It is being used (very successfully) as an ornamental.

None of the volunteers at the garden knew what it was and the horticulturalist was off today. Sorry I don't have a picture.

Comments (2)

sundae
18 years ago
Try here and look at some of the pictures, maybe it was one of these types.

Here is a link that might be useful: off the wall gourds
nigeleccleston
Original Author
18 years ago
It was the Bitter Melon gourd,Taiwan Large I'm sure. The descriptions have it as green, but I think they are referring to the immature fruits which are used for food.
Thank you!
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