Cucurbita pepo

Cucurbita pepo

Cucurbita moschata

Cucurbita maxima

Cucurbita maxima

Cucurbita moschata

Cucurbita pepo

Cucurbita maxima

Cucurbita maxima

Cucurbita pepo

Cucurbita pepo

Cucurbita maxima x C. moschata

Cucurbita moschata

These red, orange, and yellow fire flowers have a sweet and mild yet peppery spice. Both the flowers and the adorable round leaves are edible and delicious, and the unripe seed pods can be pickled into a peppery caper-like garnish.

These incredible fruits are like the mango of the temperate world. Fruits can be quite astringent until fully ripened, but once ripe their sugar content goes through the roof! Delicious fresh, delicious slow-cured and candied.

Pereskia bleo

Also known as Wax Rose, this is a unique leafy cactus plant that produces an edible fruit that resembles a rose. The fruit has a sour flavor much like a lemon with the crunchy, juicy texture of star fruit (carambola). —Photo from Urban Tropicals

Pereskia aculeata

Also known as Lemon Vine, Uña de Gato, and many other names, this unique leafy cactus plant is even more unique in that both leaves and spikes stick straight out of the small fruits! It ripens from acidic to slightly sweet with both fruity and more savory vegetable tones, like a tomato-carrot-peach kind of flavor. —Photo from @zeezbloomz