Mirliton Chayote Pear Squash Sechium edule Edible – 1 Whole Fruit for Growing
Chayote is a warm-season, tender perennial. Suitable for containers in cooler climates. Mirliton is better known as chayote, and records show it was grown in New Orleans from as early as 1867. Chayotes are also known as mirliton, mirleton, chocho or cho-cho, chouchoute, choko, Christophine, Chou chou, creeping potato, pataste, chayote squash, pipinolish, pipinola, chouchoute, xuxu, custard marrow, Sayote, vegetable pear.