Pumpkin stem [Travel day filler]

Travel day. Zero frames. Still struggling just to finish out Year 11 and get to the end of 2021…

A pedicel is the stalk of an individual flower within an inflorescence…
A petiole is a leaf stalk that connects the leaf blade to the stem…
I cannot find a separate name for the stalk of an individual fruit, although the Wikipedia page for pedicel shows a pumpkin and has the caption “Pumpkin pedicel”…

What’s the difference between pumpkins, squashes, and gourds? An answer, from Missouri Botanical Garden: “Names differ throughout the world, but in the United States, any round, orange squash used for pies or jack-o-lanterns is likely to be called a pumpkin. But the term ‘pumpkin’ really has no botanical meaning, as they are actually all squash. Squash are divided into two categories: tender or summer squash, and hard-skinned or winter squash. Examples of summer squash include zucchini, pattypan, straightneck, crookneck and other types. Winter squash include small to medium hard-skinned squash such as the acorn, small hubbard, miniature pumpkin and spaghetti types, as well as the large hard-skinned types, including banana, butternuts, cheese pumpkins, cushaws, and large hubbards, among others.”

“Pumpkin” at Wikipedia

Genus page at PhytoImages (Not a secure, https, connection)

Looking back
  1 year ago: “Meet a $16.50 light bulb.”
 2 years ago: No post
 3 years ago: No post
 4 years ago: “Happy Thanksgiving!”
 5 years ago: “Pumpkin-Pecan Pie”
 6 years ago: “It’s that time of year!”
 7 years ago: “Packed to the gills…”
 8 years ago: “Heather”
 9 years ago: “Out for a walk…”
10 years ago: “Thanksgiving flowers”

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[Mags]

Great texture! One step at a time. =)

[Nancy Shepherd]

Good detail view.