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Common name swan's neck gourd; bottle gourd Family cucurbitaceae Life cycle annual Flowers white (summer) Size vine Light sun Cultural notes prefers fertile, moist soil From seed germinate at room temperature or warmer Sometime mid-summer, I noticed these vines growing up into my tomato cages. I vaguely remembered sowing some seeds in that general area, but I didn't remember which - I thought it might have been melons. Well, it turned out to be speckled swan gourds, the seed coming from the AHS seed exchange. The vines were certainly vigorous with lush large bright-green leaves, and they showed off plenty of crinkly white flowers, which open late in the day. Lots of tiny gourds too, but very few got to be any significant size. Maybe I should have selectively removed the majority to pump energy into a few selected fruits. At any rate, we got a few interesting ones, and the plants kept on going long after the tomatoes with which they mingled had given up.

This plant used to grow in our garden, but it slipped away...

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