Sponge Gourd - will this vine survive such adverse weather conditions?

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2 days ago, while taking an evening walk, I saw a vine wrapped around the trunk of a dry tree near the footpath on the roadside.

Believe me, I did not always have these incredible powers of discovering different and beautiful things in nature. Although I have always loved plants, with the addition of my passion for photography, it has blossomed further because now I can share with you all the different and beautiful things I have seen. 📸

So 2 days ago, during my evening walk, I saw this vine wrapped around the trunk of a dry tree near the footpath on the roadside and this is how it looked from a distance. The large area of ​​water that you are seeing behind this is not a beautiful lake or some river here. This is the waterlogging of low-lying land after continuous rains, which the earth has refused to absorb.

WHY? Perhaps because we have made it a habit to play with nature, we never think about nature. Or I should say We Only THINK about nature and do nothing.

Anyway, after looking at it from a distance, I realized that it could definitely be the vine of some fruit or vegetable. From a distance, it appeared to be growing well but after going a little closer, I also came to know about its poor condition which you can understand by looking at its withered indifferent leaves.

However, it is still alive and if the ground absorbs water and there is not much rain, it might even survive. Because its current condition is due to overwatering, the reason for which I have just mentioned above.

Currently, there were many new small buds on it, seeing which I felt very good and positive because even in such adverse weather conditions, it still seems to have grown quite well.

Also, some of the buds were blooming and looking very beautiful, but apart from all this, I was looking for a mature bloom so that I could know which fruit or vegetable vine it was.

This was the only flower on this entire vine which had started taking the shape of its fruit. I was feeling a little bad seeing this because perhaps this vine might not be able to survive even till the fruits ripen. But right now we can't do anything except hope that some miracle happens and this vine can live its life happily.

Although I recognized it just by looking at its flowers, but for confirmation I also asked Google Lens and I was right, it is a Sponge Gourd vine. 🥒

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