Gourd

Colin and Donna Craig-Brown discovered what they believed was a 17.2 pound potato in their garden last summer.

(He previously grew pumpkins as well, but gave that up because the most giant of giant pumpkins can be "too difficult to manage." That "turkey" means that Glazebrook can keep his potato record, adding it to his list of Guinness-certified achievements. (Yes, he ate a sample slice of Dug several months ago.) "If it quacks like a duck, swims like a duck and has feathers on it, then it must be a duck," he said.

Guinness World Records wrote to say that testing had found Colin and Donna Craig-Brown's find was in fact a tuber of a gourd.

The existing Guinness record will stand – a 2011 monster from Britain that weighed in at just under 11lb (5kg). For this reason, we do unfortunately have to disqualify the application.” “What can you say?” he said.

Colin and Donna Craig-Brown, who made the discovery when cleaning their vegetable garden, sent in a DNA sample to the Guinness World Records to see if their “ ...

Dug’s owner in New Zealand admitted to being 'disappointed' that his record-breaking dreams have been crushed but says it has not deterred him from 'growing the biggest potato in the world'. Colin and Donna Craig-Brown, who made the discovery when cleaning their vegetable garden, sent in a DNA sample to the Guinness World Records to see if their “potato” was the world’s heaviest. What some thought to be the world’s biggest potato has been ruled as being a gourd following a DNA test in Scotland. The oversized fruit, that was named Dug, was found in August in a garden in Hamilton, New Zealand. It weighed in at 7.9 kg.