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Originally written by The Almighty Doer of Stuff:

Iaqqy Nem Yaer!

My mother has a compost pile next to her garden in the back yard. Sometimes we find various forms of squash or potatoes growing out of it. One year, my mother was growing zucchini, and it ended up interbreeding with the pumpkins that started growing out of the compost pile (from the Halloween pumpkin seeds). We ended up with this vegetable that looked like a gigantic zucchini, but when we cut it open, the inside was orange. We called it a pumpkini. It was tasty. Unfortunately, it was so big that it got moldy after we had eaten only half of it, so we had to throw the other half away.

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It's not all that uncommon; we've had similar experiences when growing pumpkins and zucchini. Pumpkins, zucchini and cucumbers all in the family Cucurbitaceae, so they're quite closely related, and it's not altogether surprising that they're able to hybridise.

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Originally written by Thuryl:

Really, you should have predicted that there's a Wikipedia article on this.

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