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Unusual Look Can't identify this after searching a long time. Photo taken in November in Windsor, Vermont (USA) following a frosty night. Could I get help with this? Thank you. Echinocystis lobata Click/tap to enlarge Species introCountry intro

Unusual Look

Can't identify this after searching a long time. Photo taken in November in Windsor, Vermont (USA) following a frosty night. Could I get help with this? Thank you.

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  1. View WildFlower's profile
    WildFlower
    Lion
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    It's most likely a wild cucumber (Echinocystis lobata).
    https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/flower/wild-cucumber
    https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/echinocystis/lobata/     Posted 9 years ago
  2. View denelson42's profile
    denelson42
    Eagle Owl
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    Thanks so much with the help on identifying this "wild cucumber". Had been struggling with it. Never saw one beroe that I can recall.
    Thanks again.     Posted 9 years ago

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The Prickly cucumber

"Echinocystis" is a monotypic genus in the gourd/melon/cucumber family Cucurbitaceae, with the sole species "Echinocystis lobata", commonly called "wild cucumber", "prickly cucumber", or "balsam apple".

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Similar species: Begonias, Gourds
Species identified by denelson42
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Uploaded Nov 24, 2015. Captured Nov 22, 2015 14:34.
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  • Canon EOS 20D
  • f/5.6
  • 1/400s
  • ISO200
  • 87mm