Melon
திரினிப்பழம்కర్బూజ, కస్తూరికర్బూజതയ്ക്കുമ്പളം
Cucumis melo L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 2.3 m
- wide
- 61 cm
Cucurbitaceae
Formerly Bryonia collosa, Cucumis acidus, Cucumis alba, Cucumis arenarius, and 64 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Scrambling annualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Ethiopia to S. Africa, SW. Syria to Arabian Pen. and Indian Subcontinent, New Guinea to N. & C. AustraliaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 1.8 m to 2.7 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 30 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 甜瓜, 越瓜, 马泡瓜
- Dutch
- Meloen
- Simplified Chinese
- 哈密瓜, 香瓜, 华莱士瓜
- Welsh
- melon
- Slovenian
- melona
- Czech
- meloun cukrový
- Finnish
- herkkumeloni
- Tamil
- திரினிப்பழம்
- Telugu
- కర్బూజ, కస్తూరికర్బూజ, ఖర్బూజా
- Marathi
- वाळूक
- Bangla
- ফুটি
- Malayalam
- തയ്ക്കുമ്പളം
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- 3D model: Cucumis melo (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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