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Melon is a name given to various members of the Cucurbitaceae
Cucurbitaceae

Cucurbitaceae is a plant family commonly known as melons, gourds or cucurbits and includes crops like cucumbers, squash , luffas, melons and watermelons....
 family with fleshy fruit. Melon can refer to either the plant
Plant

Plants are Life organisms belonging to the Kingdom Plantae. They include familiar organisms such as trees, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae....
 or the fruit
Fruit

The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context, and the term is not synonymous in food preparation and biology. In botany, which is the scientific study of plants, fruits are the ripened Ovary of flowering plants....
, which is a false berry. Many different cultivars have been produced, particularly of muskmelons
Muskmelon

Muskmelon is a species of melon that has been developed into many cultivated varieties. These include smooth skinned varieties, such as honeydew, and different netted cultivars known as cantaloupes ....
. The plant grows as a vine.






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Melon is a name given to various members of the Cucurbitaceae
Cucurbitaceae

Cucurbitaceae is a plant family commonly known as melons, gourds or cucurbits and includes crops like cucumbers, squash , luffas, melons and watermelons....
 family with fleshy fruit. Melon can refer to either the plant
Plant

Plants are Life organisms belonging to the Kingdom Plantae. They include familiar organisms such as trees, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae....
 or the fruit
Fruit

The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context, and the term is not synonymous in food preparation and biology. In botany, which is the scientific study of plants, fruits are the ripened Ovary of flowering plants....
, which is a false berry. Many different cultivars have been produced, particularly of muskmelons
Muskmelon

Muskmelon is a species of melon that has been developed into many cultivated varieties. These include smooth skinned varieties, such as honeydew, and different netted cultivars known as cantaloupes ....
. The plant grows as a vine. Although the melon is a fruit, some varieties may be considered "culinary vegetables".

Culinary vegetables

  • Genus Momordica Bitter melon
    Bitter melon

    Momordica charantia is a tropical and subtropical vine of the family Cucurbitaceae, widely grown for edible fruit, which is among the most Taste#Bitterness of all vegetables....
  • Genus Benincasa Winter melon
    Winter melon

    The winter melon, also called white gourd or ash gourd, is a vine grown for its very large fruit, eaten as a vegetable. The fruit is fuzzy when young....


Culinary fruit

  • Genus Citrullus - Watermelon
    Watermelon

    Watermelon refers to both fruit and plant of a vine-like herb originally from southern Africa and one of the most common types of melon. This flowering plant produces a special type of fruit known by botany as a Epigynous berry, which has a thick Peel and fleshy center ; pepos are derived from an inferior ovary and are characteristic of...
  • Genus Cucumis
    • C. metuliferus - Horned melon
      Horned melon

      The horned melon, also called melano, African horned cucumber or melon, jelly melon, hedged gourd, English tomato, or kiwano, is the vine Cucumis metuliferus and is of African origin....
    • C. melo
      Muskmelon

      Muskmelon is a species of melon that has been developed into many cultivated varieties. These include smooth skinned varieties, such as honeydew, and different netted cultivars known as cantaloupes ....
      • C. melo cantalupensis. Skin that is rough and warty, not netted. European Cantaloupe
        Cantaloupe

        Cantaloupe refers to two varieties of muskmelon , which is a species in the family Cucurbitaceae . Cantaloupes are typically 15?25 cm in length and are somewhat oblong, though not as oblong as watermelons....
         and Algerian melon.
      • C. melo inodorus. Canary melon, Casaba, Kolkhoznitsa melon, Hami melon
        Hami melon

        The Hami melon is a type of muskmelon, originally from Kumul, Xinjiang. It is also referred to as the Chinese Hami melon. A generic term that can be applied is "snow melon"....
        , Honeydew
        Honeydew (melon)

        File:Honeydew Leaf 2150px.jpgHoneydew is a cultivar group of the muskmelon, Cucumis melo Inodorus group, which includes crenshaw, casaba, Persian, winter, and other mixed melons....
        , Navajo Yellow, Piel de Sapo
        Piel de Sapo

        Piel de Sapo is a type of melon widely available in the Northern Hemisphere, with a green blotched skin after which it is named. . With the same shape but with yellow skin there is another type known as "Amarillo" or "Yellow Canary"" melon....
        /Santa Claus, Sugar melon
        Sugar melon

        A sugar melon is a type of cantaloupe that is about five to six inches in diameter and weighing between two and a half to four pound s . Nearly round in shape, it has thick, sweet, orange flesh and a ribbed exterior that is a silvery gray....
        , tigger (tiger) melon, and Japanese melons.
      • C. melo reticulatus, true muskmelons, with netted skin. Examples include Bailan melon
        Bailan melon

        The Bailan melon is a locally famous type of melon grown near Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu province in the People's Republic of China.According to Chinese sources, the melons were introduced to China by a Mr....
        , , North American "cantaloupe"
        Cantaloupe

        Cantaloupe refers to two varieties of muskmelon , which is a species in the family Cucurbitaceae . Cantaloupes are typically 15?25 cm in length and are somewhat oblong, though not as oblong as watermelons....
        , Galia
        Galia (melon)

        The Galia is a type of melon similar to a cantaloupe, though larger, and with deep green flesh. The name Galia is the feminine form of the Israeli name Gal ....
        , Ogen, Persian, Sharlyn melons.
      • Modern crossbred varieties, e.g. Crenshaw (Casaba X Persian), Crane (Japanese X N.A. cantaloupe)


Oilseed sources

  • Cucumeropsis mannii
    Cucumeropsis mannii

    Cucumeropsis mannii is a species of melon native to Tropics Africa west of the Great Rift Valley, where it is grown for food and as a source of oil....


See also

  • Melon baller


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External links

  • – Purdue University, Center for New Crops & Plant Products.
  • – Multilingual multiscript plant name database
  • – List of photographed varieties of melons
  • – List of photographed varieties of Melons and Watermelons