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Honeydew melon, Kolkata, West Bengal, India Honeydew melon flower. The honeydew melon is one of the two main cultivar types in Cucumis melo Inodorus Group. [3] It is characterized by the smooth, often green or yellowish rind and lack of musky odor. The other main type in the Inodorus Group is the wrinkle-rind casaba melon. [4]
The Canary melon (Cucumis melo (Inodorus group) [1]) or winter melon [2] (not to be confused with the wax gourd, also called winter melon) is a large, bright-yellow elongated melon with a pale green to white inner flesh. This melon has a distinctively sweet flavor that is slightly tangier than a honeydew melon.
These plants produce large white flowers which attract many insects. The melon gourd is green and flecked with white. In Tanzania, only the male flowers produce nectar, which is fed on by the Eastern Olive Sunbird, but the actual pollinators are carpenter bees in the genus Xylocopa; female individuals mimic the males but are nectarless. [3]
A small melon with a hardy exterior, making it able to be stored as a winter melon. The skin is green flecked with pale green, and the flesh is also green, being very sweet and juicy. [1] 'Ha'ogen' An aromatic melon with flavorful green flesh. 'Hackensack' The outside is hardy and netted, with deep ribs, as well as a golden color mottled with ...
The Bailan melon (Chinese: 白蘭瓜) is a locally famous melon grown near Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu province in the People's Republic of China. [1] It is a variety of honeydew melon , globose to subglobose and typically has white skin with sweet, white or pale green, flesh. [ 2 ]
The Galia melon, also known as sarda in Southeast Asia, is a type of F 1 hybrid melon (Cucumis melo) originating from a cross between the green-flesh cantaloupe (Cantalupensis Group) 'Ha'Ogen' and the netted-rind early melon (Chandalak Group) 'Krymka' (sometimes as 'Krimka').
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Cucumis melo, also known as melon, [2] [3] is a species of Cucumis that has been developed into many cultivated varieties. The fruit is a pepo.The flesh is either sweet or bland, with or without an aroma, and the rind can be smooth (such as honeydew), ribbed (such as European cantaloupe), wrinkled (such as Cassaba melon), or netted (such as American cantaloupe).