Pumpkin Vine

And the fame of thy worth like a pumpkin-vine grow ❋ Divers (2007)

Cabbages grew in plain sight; and a pumpkin-vine, rooted at some distance, had run across the intervening space, and deposited one of its gigantic products directly beneath the hall window, as if to warn the Governor that this great lump of vegetable gold was as rich an ornament as New England earth would offer him. ❋ Unknown (2002)

There is a legal axiom which would settle the pumpkin-vine query -- that of _cujus est solum ejus est usque ad coelum_ -- 'ownership in the soil confers possession of everything even as high as heaven.' ❋ Various (N/A)

Montanus, in his travels through Muscovy, speaks of a wonderful plant on the borders of Tartary, which resembled a pumpkin-vine in appearance, only that instead of pumpkins it produced lambs covered with wool. ❋ Various (N/A)

BILLY BOY, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 7: He replies to a series of questions about his wife: she is "too young to leave her mammy," can "bake a cherry-pie," is "as tall as a pine and as straight as a pumpkin-vine," is "twice six times seven, twice twenty and eleven," and so on. ❋ Josiah Henry Combs (1923)

And the fame of thy worth like a pumpkin-vine grow, ❋ John Greenleaf Whittier (1849)

Cabbages grew in plain sight; and a pumpkin-vine, rooted at some distance, had run across the intervening space, and deposited one of its gigantic products directly beneath the hall-window; as if to warn the Governor that this great lump of vegetable gold was as rich an ornament as New England earth would offer him. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

And everyone knows Vijay Narayansingh - in fact, he's a pumpkin-vine relative of mine somehow (Screw six degrees of separation, in Trinidad it's 60 degrees). ❋ Unknown (2009)