These pumpkins are so oddly beautiful I just had to share. My friend Christa picked them up at Farmer John’s pumpkin patch in Half Moon Bay, about 30 to 40 minutes from San Francisco. Having never seen them before, I spent the longest time trying to figure out how they developed to look like two different species squashed into one, with a warty belt around the middle.
These pumpkins have a handful of colorful names, including Turk’s Turban, Turk’s Squash, Scotchman’s Purse, Ladies’ Eardrops, and (for the smaller ones) Aladdin’s Turban. Apparently, because the sun hits the top more directly, the pumpkins develop top heavy, like an upside-down hat.
Oh, and they don’t taste very good, so it’s best to just display them around the house, maybe near the punch bowl at your Halloween party.
More pics of these odd- but fun-looking specimens.
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How do the bottom halves get those amazing rainbow effect patterns on them? Is that anything to do with the sun too? They are beautiful! And they all did not taste good? That seems like a shame, I thought you’d be giviing us loads of pumpkin/ squash based recipes!
i’ve never seen those pumpkins before.
Never seen this before you are actually using food as a decoration. They might stink after a week or two.
These pumpkins look really awesome. Never seen such a pumpkin before.
I must totally agree. Crazy but beautifull pumpkins.
Wow, didn´t knew Pumpinks can look like this. I only knew those perfect onews from the Supermarket before.
Are this Pumpkins? Amazing and crazy
those pumpkins look scary. its clear that they are made of 2 different pumpkins, but though they look kinda “mutated”. cool stuff ;)
Beautiful Pumpkins
try baking them :)