what is this plant

[runamuk]

I am usually pretty good at plant ID but not sure what this thing is......I see the vines all over never realized they grew a strange fruit thing....seems the bears eat these as well....or play with them not sure which....

[bucklucky]

Wild Cucumber, its a fricken pain in the ass and I have it all over the damb place. I believe it is poisonus also.

[Gobble]

Did the Jolly Green Giant lose a testicle? 

[runamuk]

Thanks.....and yeah I figured a picture was better than my description 

It may be poisonous but bears seem to eat it ......

 

[bucklucky]

I think the actual cucumber is poisonus, not the vine. Our damn horse was out eating the crap after I brush hawged the other day. But I dont know for a fact it is poisonus, just what I was told??

[boneaddict]

I don't think it is though I wouldn't add it to my salad.   Its a very aggressive plant and loves to take over burns.  Its usually one of the first to establish and its a real pisser.

[boneaddict]

The theory of poision might come from the old days as some tribes used to use it to poision fish.  It actually doesn't poision them, but changes the surface tension or alters the chemistry so that the fish can't get oxygen from the water.  It makes them rise to the surface like they were poisioned.  (curious to see if its like rotinone)

[BLKBEARKLR]

http://www.calflora.net/bloomingplants/wildcucumber.html

http://www.smmtc.org/plant_of_the_month_200704_Wild_Cucumber.htm

A little read up about them, and yes they are wild cucumbers.

Joe

[bucklucky]

I know when we cleared my land when we built the house there were some ginormous root balls from them suckers, some actually died and left big sloppy holes. It does say it is poisonuse, just not how it is poisonous.

[Ellensburg]

if its cucumber like he said u should eat it.