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Solanum citrullifolium is a species of flowering plant in the Solanaceae family. [2] It is a nightshade referred to by the common name watermelon nightshade, [3] as its leaves somewhat resemble those of a watermelon plant. It is a white-stemmed shrub with purple star-shaped flowers.
The watermelon is an annual that has a prostrate or climbing habit. Stems are up to 3 metres (10 feet) long and new growth has yellow or brown hairs. Leaves are 60 to 200 millimetres (2 + 1 ⁄ 4 to 7 + 3 ⁄ 4 inches) long and 40 to 150 mm (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 to 6 in) wide. These usually have three lobes that are lobed or doubly lobed.
Peperomia argyreia, the watermelon peperomia, is a species of flowering plant in the pepper family Piperaceae, native to northern South America, including Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela. The plant is not closely related to either watermelons or begonias. These terms relate to the shape, markings and texture of the leaves.
A plant that loses all of its leaves only briefly before growing new ones, so that it is leafless for only a short time, e.g. approximately two weeks. bristle A straight, stiff hair (smooth or with minute teeth); the upper part of an awn (when the latter is bent and has a lower, stouter, and usually twisted part, called the column ).
Red produce, like watermelon and tomatoes, contain the antioxidant lycopene; blue and purple picks like eggplant and blueberries are rich in anthocyanins; and orange fruits and veggies like ...
Japanese maple autumn leaves. Autumn leaf color is a phenomenon that affects the normally green leaves of many deciduous trees and shrubs by which they take on, during a few weeks in the autumn season, various shades of yellow, orange, red, purple, and brown. [1]
Didymella bryoniae, syn. Mycosphaerella melonis, is an ascomycete fungal plant pathogen that causes gummy stem blight on the family Cucurbitaceae (the family of gourds and melons), which includes cantaloupe, cucumber, muskmelon and watermelon plants.
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