"Jack Sloan" > wrote in message
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> "Smitty Jagermanjenson" > wrote in message
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> > "Wayne Lundberg" > wrote in message
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> > > Hard ch like in church, then hard eye like your eye followed
immediately
> > > with hard O and te with soft e not like tea but lik elephant.
Chayote...
> > it
> > > is not a squash, it is a tree grown fruit - seed inside, meat around
the
> > > seed, and protective skin. Fruit. Prepared like a vegetable.
> >
> > It's not a tree grown fruit, it comes from a vine. I know, I've grown
> them.
>
> They grow on vines here too. I've grown them.
> Jack

When I grew them in Phoenix I had one over 50 feet spreading across my back
fence. It made over 20 fruit that I had to freeze so they were not wasted.

I wonder where Mr. Lundberg is from, where his Chayotes grow from trees.