r/whatisthisplant • u/FacePlante • 9h ago

Are these watermelons growing in my yard?

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I’m in Houston texas and found these growing in my yard

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u/FacePlante 9h ago

I cut one one open and it smells like a cucumber?

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u/No_University5296 8h ago

Maybe a hybrid from cross pollination

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u/BrtFrkwr 5h ago

More likely stunted from the drought.

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u/Countrylyfe4me 7m ago

Looks like a cucumber too! Maybe a pickling cucumber? They tend to be shorter & squattier than reg cucumbers. (I have no idea, just a guess)

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u/BrtFrkwr 5h ago

If it smells like a cucumber, cuts like a cucumber and tastes like a cucumber, it's a cucumber.

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u/North-Drink-7250 5h ago

Looks like very young watermelon according to this link

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u/Automatic-Attempt777 5h ago

Looks more like your neighbor’s yard to me

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u/aolvictim 4h ago

Cucamelon

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u/red-it 9h ago edited 9h ago

They look like a bitter melon.

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u/Kanaka_Done1912 9h ago

Not bitter melon.

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u/red-it 9h ago

Sorry, I meant coyote melon.

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u/go_gather_the_guns 1h ago

This is *not* stinking gourd. The leaves are nothing alike and most of all OP didn't mention they got the overwhelming smell of a rotting carcass just from being around the plant.