Cucumis melo
Melon, Muskmelon, Cantaloupe, Oriental melon, Honeydew, Musk Melon, Rockmelon, Hami melon, Melons, Rock melon, Cucumis melo, Muskmelon (plant)
Description
An annual horticultural herbaceous plant with a creeping habit and abundant branching; appreciated in the agri-food industry and cultivated in open fields for its characteristic fruits, globular or elongated, with a sweet and fresh flavour. Rustic, it requires full sun exposure in well-draining soil with plenty of organic matter as well as adequate irrigation and fertilisation to ensure an excellent summer flowering followed by abundant production.
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Magnoliophyta
- Class
- Angiospermae
- Order
- Cucurbitales
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae
- Genus
- Cucumis
- Species
- Cucumis melo
Synonyms (68)
- Bryonia collosa
- Cucumis acidus
- Cucumis alba
- Cucumis arenarius
- Cucumis aromaticus
- Cucumis bisexualis
- Cucumis campechianus
- Cucumis cantalupo
- Cucumis chate
- Cucumis chinensis
- Cucumis chito
- Cucumis cicatrisatus
- Cucumis collosus
- Cucumis conomon
- Cucumis cubensis
- Cucumis dudaim
- Cucumis eriocarpus
- Cucumis flexuosus
- Cucumis jamaicensis
- Cucumis jucunda
- Cucumis laevigatus
- Cucumis maculatus
- Cucumis microcarpus
- Cucumis microspermus
- Cucumis momordica
- Cucumis officinarum-melo
- Cucumis orientalis
- Cucumis pancherianus
- Cucumis pedatifidus
- Cucumis persicodorus
- Cucumis persicus
- Cucumis pictus
- Cucumis princeps
- Cucumis pseudocolocynthis
- Cucumis pubescens
- Cucumis reginae
- Cucumis schraderianus
- Cucumis serotinus
- Cucumis turbinatus
- Cucumis utilissimus
- Ecballium lambertianum
- Luffa cylindrica
- Melo adana
- Melo adzhur
- Melo agrestis
- Melo ambiguus
- Melo ameri
- Melo cantalupa
- Melo cassaba
- Melo chandalak
- Melo chate
- Melo chinensis
- Melo conomon
- Melo dudaim
- Melo figari
- Melo flexuosus
- Melo microcarpus
- Melo monoclinus
- Melo orientalis
- Melo persicus
- Melo sativus
- Melo vulgaris
- Melo zard
- Momordica cylindrica
- Momordica lambertiana
- Momordica sativa
- Pepo melopepo
- Pepo verrucosus
