Vegetable and fruit garden?

Question

my sister has a huge veggie and fruit garden in her backyard. the other day she went out to collect some of her veggies/fruit and she somehow came across a crossbreed of two plants. she thinks the crossbreed was of a eggplant and a cantaloupe. first my question is how the h**l does this happen? and 2 is there someway to find out what this fruit/veggie is now? is there someone she can call? i went over her house to check it out and it is the weirdest looking thing i have ever seen. it is the same shape as a cantaloupe so it looks just like a cantaloupe except it is black and it has little hairs on it. what the h**l could this be?

Answer 1

First of all, it is impossible for an eggplant and a cantaloupe to cross.  In order for a cross to occur, the plants have to be of the same species.  Eggplant and cantaloupe aren't even in the same family!

It sounds like your sister has some type of tropical melon mixed into her package of seeds.  There are a number of types of melon grown in Central America and Asia that look like this.  Most likely what happened was that when the seeds were being packaged, there was a seed still in the production line from a previous packaging (that of the black melon) and it slipped into your sister's seed package.  

If you have a picture of it, or of the plant it came off of, it would help in the identification of it.

Answer 2

Maybe it's a wild plant that growing after raining . U can call for the botanical center at yr state for expert check it . If it's valuable,U will be recorded :D

Answer 3

For now I wouldn't open it up or touch it very much or of course have a taste test.

Whats probably happened is that the seeds have crossbreeded in the soil creating a funny looking plant. ^^ The answerer above me has a good idea about calling up, because the plant could be really rare :D