This is true for the squash plant.

This wild squash plant is native to the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico where it is relatively uncommon.

"A typical squash plant will make 20 pounds or so of squash, and that's all you want to ask of it," he said.

Not that a squash plant requires a doctorate to pursue its career - which is to produce fruit and, thus, seeds for the next generation - but it does handle the job with consummate skill.

But you can also thank the canny squash plant, which, by opening its blossoms in sequence, assured that most or all of its female blossoms would be pollinated.

But not, knowing how smart a squash plant is, too many of them.

(Life is tough under a squash plant.)

Lagenaria abyssinica is a species of squash plant.

Around him now he saw closely-planted rows of corn, an early-ripening hybrid, and between the rows, great hairy squash plants on which odd yellow squash like bowling balls grew.

Other boxes were at different levels, with trellises of beans and cucumbers adding vertical interest and squash plants rambling over the ground.