Pepino
Solanum muricatum Aiton
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 99 cm
- wide
- 99 cm
Solanaceae
Also called Tree-melon, Pepino melon, Pepino pear
Formerly Solanum guatemalense, Solanum hebephorum, Solanum longifolium, Solanum melaniferum, and 4 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Wild in
- Colombia to PeruKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 99 cmRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Spread
- 99 cmRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -2.5 °C (USDA zone 9b)Read from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: grows as, climate, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (10)
- Portuguese
- Pêra-melão
- Spanish
- pera melón, melón de árbol, Ají dulce
- Chinese (China)
- 南美香瓜茄, 人参果
- Chinese
- 香瓜茄
- Finnish
- pepino, Pepino
- Slovak
- ľuľok mäkkoostnatý
- Turkish
- Pepino
- French
- Melon-poire
- Swedish
- Pepino
- Simplified Chinese
- 人参果, 香瓜梨, 香艳茄
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Solanum muricatum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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