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Aug 7, 2016 4:07 PM CST
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Can you identify this fruit, have been in the house for 12 years and have never seen , just popped up looks kind of like a cucumber inside .
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Aug 7, 2016 4:19 PM CST
Name: Jay
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I think it is some variety of wild cucumber in the Marah genus.

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Aug 7, 2016 4:21 PM CST
Name: Daisy I
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Aug 7, 2016 5:03 PM CST
Name: greene
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Looking at the leaves it could be Cucumis dipsaceus.
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