Thread: Pumpkin Tree Plants

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Haunter Friends of ours ( AKA Brushe) gave us a little Pumpkin Tree Plant in a styrofoam coffee cup a few months ago.

I thought I would share the progress of this plant .

The plant about a month ago:


The plant NOW with its pumpkins :




All thanks to my husband : HAMM ...cause he has the green thumb to keep things alive.

Infor on the plant copied from a web site : Also Called Pumpkin on a Stick plant


The fruits on these plants are used in the florist trade in flower arrangements, so you know they make excellent cut 'flowers'! This is a extremeloy beautiful plant, even before it begins flowering or setting fruits, the bush itself has dark purple stems and blue-green serrated leaves which are embellished with purple veins and sharp purple spines along the veins, like a medieval shield!

The 2 inch wide pumpkin shaped fruits change from green to orange to tomato-red as they ripen and really set off the purple stems! These make a colorful addition to your garden or landscape! I understand that the fruits, in the green stage, are also edible (but I haven't personally tried them!), said to have a bitter flavor used in Southeast Asian cuisine.

These can be grown in containers (so you can place them strategically for best effect!) or in the garden or landscape and they need 6 hours of light or sun a day and have average water needs. The bushes reach 36 inches to 48 inches tall and 24 to 30 inches wide. These are very rare seeds!

oh my!! i'd LOVE to have one of those.. any idea where i might find one?

I'd like one, too!

LOVE IT! I want one!!!

That is pretty cool. Didn't know there was such a thing.

Awwww that is so cute those tiny lil pumkins.

I HAD to google this one!!

It's also called an ornamental eggplant.It's probably too late in the season here in MD to grow one of these. They are edible but also used as ornamental decorations.

More info

There's always next year!

Never seen such a thing. Very cool indeed.

I love those tiny pumpkins! Imagine carving those lol! The plant is beautiful and I love the purple stems nice contrast to the green and orange. I saw that deer dosen't like this one cause of the thorns. Not around where I live they eat my roses.

What do they smell like? Does it give off a pumpkin scent? Are they easily found? This would look good as a table centerpiece.