FREE: Organic Red pumpkin eggplant aka Pumpkin on a stick (Solanum Integrifolium) seeds 15

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Pumpkin on a stick aka Red pumpkin aka Chinese Scarlet Pumpkin aka Hmong Eggplant (Solanum Integrifolium) belongs to the Eggplant family and is not a true pumpkin. This nightshade plant produces bright red/orange miniature pumpkins that are not only a good conversational piece but are also edible. You can find recipes on the internet. The link below shows some of the red pumpkin dishes.

http://www.swagbucks.com/?t=i&q=pumpkin+on+a+stick+plant+care

The plant is a few feet tall and is an annual. The fruits start off as green (not edible at this stage) but turn to yellow or orange (1st picture) and fully ripen to bright orange or red. I do not have pictures of the fully ripen fruits but you can see them in the link below.

http://www.swagbucks.com/?t=i&q=red+pumpkin+eggplant

The fruit is bitter and becomes more bitter as it ripens. I harvest the fruits at the stage when they are not that bitter (1st picture, I do not cook the green ones). In Chinese traditional Medicine and also Alternative Medicine, any bitters eg. bitter gourd/melon is good for our body/health.

The fruits can also be used for decoration or flower arrangement as pumpkins on sticks (link above). These would be the stage to gather your seeds (after drying) if you are interested to collect them.

I offer 15 organic seeds from 2014 summer.