Saturday, October 30, 2010

Mystery Creeper

 
The title is for pure Halloween sensationalism, lol. Does anybody know what plant this is? It's a creeper that crossed over to our side of the fence from the vacant lot next to us. My mom called me the other day to show it to me. She was wondering about the fruit. She'd already cut the parts that hung over our wall, but I suppose she's thinking if the fruit is edible, maybe she wouldn't be so quick to yank the weed out, lol. I know it's a stray because the property next to us belongs to Mom's cousins (this used to be a street where all the residents were related to each other by blood or marriage) nobody has lived there for at least a year. And of course, it looks like a stray. So, there were two fruit colors. I guess the yellow is the riper version? Can anybody help? Is it safe? Dangerous? Edible? Is it herbal? Useful for anything? I tried googling it, but I really didn't know how to phrase the search words. Anyway, I didn't see the plant from the search results I got.

6 comments:

Sharkbytes (TM) said...

Well, when you find out, I sure want to know! Looks like some relative of our wild cucumber, but not the same.

The Kano said...

My asawa remembers eating this plant, it is edible. It is a wild plant that used to grow in the jungles in the Philippines she lived in. She can't remember the name of it, though.

Suertemom said...

I have seen that before but I don't know its name.

spinninglovelydays said...

@Sharkbytes: I'll post about it again when I get an answer. :)

@Dave: Glad to learn it's edible. Pls thank Melinda for me. :)

@Suertemom: I guess it's pretty common in the Philippines, but quite negligible since people think it's just some weed.

chubskulit said...

Hi sis, I forgot what it's called but we used to eat that when I was a kid.. para syang melon hehehe.. It's wild but it's edible.

spinninglovelydays said...

Thanks, chubskulit! How uncanny that I was actually thinking they could taste like melons from the looks of them. :)