This was it in late September:
It has since swallowed most of the backyard and has turned hanging the washing into an adventure (complete with the fear of stumbling across a deadly brown snake, not uncommon here this time of year):
It's like The Day of the Triffids out there. Another plant, similarly uninvited, was moved behind the house, so we're slowly being encircled:
Without us even noticing, it's also managed to climb into other trees. It's nothing if not tenacious:
One surprise upside to this is that it has a lot of very pretty flowers (I had no idea):
And, of course, it has real, live pumpkins, the largest of which are about a foot in diameter. I don't know much bigger they'll get - we're not even sure what type of pumpkins they are - and more keep appearing.
I reckon we have about 20 or so, at least. What on earth we're going to do with them all I don't know.
I don't mind eating pumpkin, but this is really getting ridiculous.
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