Can anyone help us ID this soft grape-sized prickly pod skin?
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It is Wild Cucumber. I saw it Saturday!
Echinocystis lobata
Posted by: Deedee Burnside | October 17, 2008 at 06:05 PM
I will try to check out the area. These pod-like items seemed to have been dropped by birds by the side of the path.
Thank you for looking into this!
Posted by: Jim Wright | October 17, 2008 at 03:19 PM
Was the plant a vine with maple-like (palmately lobed) leaves? Might be Wild Cucumber (Echinocystis lobata).
http://www.umassgreeninfo.org/fact_sheets/weed_herbarium/pages/ecnlo.html
Posted by: Tom Burr | October 17, 2008 at 02:22 PM