Tendrils are borne at leaf nodes and are a common morphological feature of most cucurbits. Reports of tendrilless mutants are rare in the cucurbit family. In a perusal of recent gene lists for the major cucurbits two tendrilless mutants were reported, one in cucumber (4) and the other in watermelon (3). In spring of 2010 we discovered several breeding lines of ornamental pumpkin derived from the same breeding population that were either segregating for a tendrilless trait or were homozygous for the trait. Here we report on the inheritance of this tendrilless trait.