cucumbers are just weird pumpkins/gourds, so yeah that's a "cucumber".
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I grew some Indian cucumbers this year (in the UK) called 'poona kheera', they started out almost white then turned orange when starting to ripen! They weren't quite as spherical as yours but not by too much. They tasted like regular cucumbers but were particularly crunchy.
You should be able to make recipes that normally use cucumber, they should taste pretty normal. It may be due to the strain of plant, but this can also happen to normal cucumber planta if the roots are stunted and they don't get enough sun. Color-wise, I have a few cukes that look like that from my garden, and the round shape just betrays the fact that cucumbers are actually a kind of melon!
If this isn't your neighbor's first garden, I'd assume they're correct, cucumbers can definitely grow like this. There are even heirloom varieties that always grow round, they're also more yellow than common cucumber varieties. Easiest way to tell would be to cut into one.
I grow lemon cucumbers that look pretty much exactly like that, only difference is they’re slightly more pronounced striping.
Cut it open, smell it, report back.
Automatic identification via PlantNet summary
Most likely match: Mangifera indica L.
| Common name | Scientific name | Likeliness |
|---|---|---|
| Mango | Mangifera indica | 35.47 % |
| Purple granadilla | Passiflora edulis | 10.82 % |
| Bell apple | Passiflora laurifolia | 4.04 % |
| Colocynth | Citrullus colocynthis | 2.72 % |
| Common passion flower | Passiflora caerulea | 1.34 % |
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Blueberry leaves can actually be great for making tea. Technically you can eat them too but they don't really taste like much.
There's several dozen blueberry and bilberry species in the Vaccinium genus and it'll be very hard for anyone to identify which one this is based solely on these photos with no knowledge of where the plant was found.
It does look like a plant of that genus and to my knowledge there aren't any poisonous species in it, but I don't know the plants in your area.
I guess I want to be sure that there aren't and toxic varieties of wild blueberries.
Har har
What if I wanted to munch on some leaves and stems???
Yes. They're wild blueberries, as safe to eat as normal blueberries
It's not safe to eat any blueberry plant. Only the blueberries are edible.
Ah, okay! It says burnweed with a likeliness of 97.32 percent which is really really really high for it!
I have bots blocked so I guess I didn't see that.
Not mint! Both this bot and inaturalist say burnweed!
Looks like a type of mint. If you say it isn't, I assume that you smelled it to find out?
It's definitely not dandelion.
Cool! Thank you bot! <3
Automatic identification via PlantNet summary
Most likely match: Erechtites hieraciifolius (L.) Raf. ex DC.
| Common name | Scientific name | Likeliness |
|---|---|---|
| American burnweed | Erechtites hieraciifolius | 97.32 % |
| Fireweed | Crassocephalum crepidioides | 0.84 % |
| Mountain aster | Oclemena acuminata | 0.15 % |
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Boiled tomato does not sound appetising to me. Unless you count tomato soup. Which for some reason makes me very unwell lmao
It's clearly a tomAYto.
Tomato is the nightshade family. There are some species that are toxic such as black nightshade that can resemble tomato.
Why? I've had some heirlooms just like that
Yup, it's a tomato.
There is my enemy the squirrel and a chipmunk so yeah!
The update might be "without a stake or cage, a storm killed him" though!
I won't! Only if they look like the tomatoes from last year, San marzano like!