Do you have a picture of the whole plant?

Growth patten of plant is reminiscent of cultivated squash and/or pumpkin, but I don't know which one.

Did you buy these seeds or is this plant a volunteer or from saved seed from last year? If it's a volunteer no one will know for sure what it is. It's definitely not a melon. If it came from bought seeds I would guess it's a decorative squash/gourd in the C. pepo species.

Rodney

Hi again here is a pic of the actual plant, hope someone can help!

The pic didn't attach to last post argh here it is!

Because the plant is staying put and not running around, I don't think it's a decorative gourd. The texture of the rind and the leaves suggest yellow squash lineage. When the plant sets another fruit, harvest it as a summer squash and see how it tastes.

If I had your strange squash I'd let it mature taste it as a winter squash, but don't get your hopes up. In my experience, four out of five times they are dogs, but fun to grow.

When you dabble in open-pollinated cucurbits, some off types are part of the scene.

Agree with planatus. Since you planted volunteers you will likely never know its name as it probably doesn't have one. It is a result of previous cross-pollination of unknown plants. But the odds are it is edible, just not worth the space it is taking up in taste.

As all the previous "help me ID this squash" posts here show, saving squash seeds and growing volunteers very seldom turns out to be worthwhile. It cross-pollinates far too easily to faithfully reproduce from seed without active intervention early in the previous season.

Dave

This is Pointed Gourd - an edible vegetable. Rich in vitamins, its mostly a summer/spring vegetable. The skin is semi hard and best not peeled but eaten. It has hard seeds that may be irritating but contains rich natural minerals. Very popular in India, if you want some recipe then write in!

Sujit

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First of all yellow blossoms means squash. Appears to be a bush plant which indicates zucchini. Color indicates a Cocozelle type. Like others have stated probably a cross as C. pepo crosses readily. It does have the physical appearance of the Pointed Gourd (Trichosanthes dioica ) but that is a heavily vining plant that is rare in North America. It is also a tropical perennial. https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1999/v4-397.html

There is a discussion pf Parwal ( Pointed gourd) on the asian forum http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/3368467/parwal-plants?n=21

That would depend on the soil, weather and water available. Even here the vine varies from region to region!

I wouldn't hesitate to eat that. Really looks like one of its parents is a marrow for sure, the other could have been any other kind of bush squash, definitely a Cucurbita pepo of some sort. There are a lot of C pepo squashes ranging from zucchinis and acorns to some of the small pumpkins, some bush some vining, pretty much all edible, although some are much better than others and they hybridize freely. There are number of oddly shaped C. pepos, too often called "gourds" and not much for eating. There are also at least three other species in Cucurbita, that produce quality edible squash and can hybridize with Cucurbita pepo varieties at times. If you save seeds or volunteers from mixed squash plantings you never know what kind of woods colts you will end up with, most of which will make passable summer squash if picked very young and most of which will fail miserably as mature winter squash.

Sorry can't say much more than what was above. Some of the winter squash have bush habit, and some have very green skin like this picture. Edible? almost certainly, but quite probably not the highest quality for a winter squash. Your first picture definitely reminded me of a cocozelle. This one quite a bit less. If you saved any seed from a mixed planting, those would almost certainly have a mixed ancestry that would be quite difficult to trace.