478kg pumpkin
, October 9, 2012
Seven-month-old Elsie Davies of London poses for her parents next to a giant pumpkin at the Royal Horticultual Society's London Harvest Festival on October 9. The pumpkin, which won first prize in the giant pumpkin competition, was grown by horticulturalist Stuart Paton, of Pennington, Hampshire, and weighs 1054 pounds (478 kg). Reuters/Suzanne Plunkett