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The seedling was an unnamed variety my OH bought home for me from a charity fair. I can't post a photo but the fruit has a light green skin with a distinctly paler striped effect. It's not Defender which is what my other plants are. Any ideas?

Anything like Romanesco?

I too have stripey ones which are called Striato di Napoli

...which looks like this

Thanks Geoff & Alan. It's definitely not the Romanesco with the raised stripey ridges. It does look a little more like the Striato di Napoli but the green of the skin is between the stripes is a lighter green than that.
I do find it frustrating when plants & seedlings are unnamed. I suppose to many people "a courgette is a courgette is a courgette" (or a tomato is a tomato is a tomato) but if you're interested in growing vegetables it's nice to know what they actually are.

Primrose, I would have posted a piccie of the Stripey Ones from Naples, but I'm not clever enough

pongeroon wrote:Primrose, I would have posted a piccie of the Stripey Ones from Naples, but I'm not clever enough

See my last post with picture - Striato di Napoli = Naples striped.

We have this stripy one called All Green Bush - it was a packet of Mr Fothergills that came free with something.

glallotments wrote:We have this stripy one called All Green Bush - it was a packet of Mr Fothergills that came free with something.

Hi GL,

I have one plant of Mr Fothergills All Green Bush as well, and the fruit and the picture on the packet look nothing like that. They are just all green

Parsons Jack wrote:

glallotments wrote:We have this stripy one called All Green Bush - it was a packet of Mr Fothergills that came free with something.

Hi GL,

I have one plant of Mr Fothergills All Green Bush as well, and the fruit and the picture on the packet look nothing like that. They are just all green

Now that is strange as we have only grown that variety, Jemmer and Zucchini. Jemmer is yellow and Zucchn is plain green. It can't be a matter of us mixing up labels as we haven't anything else that could be stripy. I thought All Green Bush was a strange name for a stripy courgette and I've looked up the variety and all the photos are plain green! Only one plant has fruited at the moment so I'll be watching out for what comes from the other plants!

glallotments - I think you may have hit the nail on the head with your photo as my courgettes do look very much like this although the skin is a little paler than in that phone But interestingly I grew this variety a few years ago and also recall that the skin then was a plain dark green with no lighter coloured markings. That is why I didn't think it could be this variety. I know the squash/courgette family can raise some strange plants which don't always come true, so perhaps the seeds were saved from this variety but have proved to turn out different. Which means, I guess, that if I do save some seeds from these stripey courgettes, there's no guarantee that they will be the same next year. All part of nature's quirks I suppose. They taste fine anyway, which I guess is the main criterion.

Primrose wrote: Which means, I guess, that if I do save some seeds from these stripey courgettes, there's no guarantee that they will be the same next year.

Hi Primrose

If you are growing other courgettes or squashes you may well get some very curious plants next year due to cross-pollination!

Alan, I'm growing four outdoor cucumber plants a few yards away from my courgettes so maybe I'll end up with a new fruit which is a combination of a courgette and cucumber!. Then I won't know whether to chop it up in a salad or roast it with peppers and aubergines!

Hi Primrose

Cucumbers - no problem!