This popped up in my compost pile

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I am wondering if this (the large variegated leaf) is a potato plant as I dumped a bunch of potatoes in the pile late last year. The vine produces flowers, but the flowers fall off without producing any kind of fruit.

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Looks more like something in the marrow family, zucchini? You could be getting male flowers if they have longish stalks.
 
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I looked up pictures of zucchini and they do look similar but the growth pattern seems to be different. This grows very much like a watermelon with very long vines.
 
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I looked up pictures of zucchini and they do look similar but the growth pattern seems to be different. This grows very much like a watermelon with very long vines.
It looks like watermelon to me, or something similar
 
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Or maybe not. Maybe this will help, I don't grow any kind of that stuff, too much mildew. If you zoom in you can see what each leaf is.

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Yes Pepper, it does look like some kind of squash. I'll see if it ever fruits!

Thank you.
 
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Looks like Pepper has the same variety of squash you do.
It's not my pic, I should have mentioned that. I got it off the net just for a picture to compare squash to the o.p's pic. I didn't grow any squash this year and I am kind of regretting that now.
 

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