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Tiny Yellow Melon on spiky vine?

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fliptop:
Planted some Okra seeds in a pot where I was unsuccessful growing peppers this year.

This vine started growing and to me it looked squash like but its vine was spiky and if I remember correctly the leaves felt rough.

It made yellow flowers and was starting to spread like crazy so I decided to remove it from the pot in case it was invasive and took over my yard.

Lo and behold, I happened to notice today that it made a fruit as it lay dying? Like, there was no fruit on the vine when I ripped it out, and today there's a yellow fruit.

It's not a big fruit. I decided to cut it open with a dirty Hori Hori knife (all I had on hand at the time). Inside the tiny fruit it smelled like honey dew melon and the seeds were plenty and looked to be of that family of melons.




So . . . Does anyone know what it is? Did I erroneously kill something of value? Closest Google search matches are telling me things like Lemon Cucumber and Thorny Nightshade . . . One is edible, one is a toxic invasive.

Galatians522:
That is no nightshade in my opinion.

fliptop:
Thanks, Galatians522, I don't think so, either, but I'd hate to be wrong about that 😳 I am leaning towards Lemon Cucumber . . .

Galatians522:
I see tendrils in the picture. Nightshades do not have tendrils. That does not mean that it is a lemon cucumber (which I question due to apparently high levels of disease resistance) or that it is edible. It is almost assuredly a Curcubit of some kind, but many Curcubits are poisonous. Typically, Curcubit toxin has a very bitter taste. I saw something similar once growing wild in a cane field. I never did get a positive id on it.

vall:
That remind me of cattle melon, pretty tasteless. It was growing wild here when I moved in. Not sure of the species (google thinks I mean soda apple) but it is a cucurbit and a weed.

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