Cucumis melo
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Description
Annual or subperennial (climber or) trailer to 6 m long, plant (woolly) hairy, hirsute or hispid.
Leaves:
Fruit ripening green, yellow, white or brown, plain-coloured, or striped or mottled, globose, (narrowly) ellipsoid or (ob)ovoid, 2-20(-100) by 2-5(-20) cm, smooth;
Seeds 4-15 by 1-2 mm, usually not winged.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical
Widely cultivated (and with feral forms) all over the world, including Malesia.
Notes
Cucumis melo, the honey melon, known all over the world in numerous cultivars as a vegetable or table fruit, can be found seemingly wild when germinated from seeds from the waste and then sometimes producing forms approaching the truly wild forma agrestis (Naudin) W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes.
Citation
Backer 1964 – In: Backer & Bakh.f., Fl. Java 1: 301
C.Jeffrey 2001 – In: Hanelt, Mansfeld’s encycl. agric. hort. crops 3: 1512
I.Telford 1982 – In: Fl. Australia: 189
J.H.Kirkbr. 1993: Biosyst. Monogr. Gen. Cucumis: 79
W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes – In: Sandakania: 54
Craib 1931: Fl. Siam.: 760
L. 2008 – In: Fl. Thailand: 428
Cogn. 1881 – In: A.DC. & C.DC., Monogr. Phan. 3: 482
Paje & Van der Vossen 1994 – In: PROSEA: 153