What are these berries? They're growing wild in my backyard. They're smaller than grapes. When I cut one open it smelled like cucumber and had a lot of white cucumber-like seeds in the middle.
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Melothria Pendula
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Baby watermelons
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It's definitely a cucurbit, like cucumber, squash or watermelon. Domestic cucurbits are bred to have low levels of toxicity but wild varieties may have higher levels of cucurbitacin, which causes severe abdominal distress.
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The seeds for these are sold here in the UK as cucamelon. The marketing says they combine the taste of a cucumber and a melon. They are basically small, crunchy cucumbers. I have grown them for the last few years, make a tasty little snack.