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August 26, 2005
Wild Cucumber or Wild Balsam Apple
(Echinocystis lobata)

This climbing vine is often found trailing over other plants in moist, sunny meadows. At Fresh Pond it grows in the thicket of brambles near the Perimeter Road next to Lusitania Field. The fruit is a distinctive spiny green bladder about 2 inches long.