# Plant ID: wild melon or squash

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 23, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-id-wild-melon-or-squash/725970 "2015-07-23T17:32:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-id-wild-melon-or-squash/725970/1 "2015-07-23T17:32:48Z")

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[This odd plant](https://www.dropbox.com/s/9caa6couos1ehwk/sqmelon.jpg?dl=0) was growing by the side of the road in No-Man’s-Land (western OK). Its leaves were sticky, as in having many tiny prickly things.

Anyone know what this is?

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**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-id-wild-melon-or-squash/725970/2 "2015-07-23T17:40:59Z")

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> **[Cucurbita foetidissima](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucurbita_foetidissima)**
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> Cucurbita foetidissima is a tuberous xerophytic plant found in the central and southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It has numerous common names, including: buffalo gourd, calabazilla, chilicote, coyote gourd, fetid gourd, fetid wild pumpkin, Missouri gourd, prairie gourd, stinking gourd, wild gourd, and wild pumpkin. The type specimen was collected from Mexico by Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland sometime before 1817. In Latin, foetidissima means ill The buffalo gourd has ev...

[http://www.idigmygarden.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18940&page=2](http://www.idigmygarden.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18940&page=2)

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**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-id-wild-melon-or-squash/725970/3 "2015-07-23T17:49:36Z")

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Thank you.