that melon plant

while sitting at my desk and staring out the window wondering what to write about, i notice large leaves waving in the wind around

spaghetti melon

spaghetti melon plant

this plant has survived 6 long years with us and has been surviving well since its grown to my bedroom window.  one of my mum's friends had given her a strange melon and we cooked it up for soup and it was delicious, my mum kept the seeds to one day grow them and as you can see, we have. i have tried looking up this particular plant on the internet but nothing but spaghetti squash has popped up and spaghetti melon recipes.



male flower of spaghetti melon

 

going around the back of the shed

 i don't know what type of plant this is, except that it is a melon and produces long, large seeds and yellow flowers. i'm guessing the plant has male and female flowers because some flowers have shriveled up while others are waiting to bloom, which would also explain that this plant is cross pollinated since i only found open male flowers. it flowers from end of summer and through autumn for what i can see and they are easy to grow if you can get your hands on some seeds.

they seem to get out of control as well if you don't control where you want them to grow, because our spaghetti melon has made its way around the side of our house and into out next-door neighbour;s backyard as well as taken over some of our tree.

overtaking the kaffir tree

:)