Citrullus lanatus
Citrul, Egusi Melon, Watermelon, Water Melon, Afghan-melon, Bastard-melon, Dessert Watermelon, Wild Watermelon, Mealbhacán uisce, Bitter Wooly Melon, Bitter Woolly Melon
Description
An annual herbaceous plant belonging to the Cucurbitaceae botanical family along with cucumbers, melons and pumpkins. With a creeping habit and high branching, it is widely cultivated in open fields or flowerbeds for its water-rich, fresh-tasting and typically sugary peponid fruits. Easy to cultivate, it requires sunny exposures in well-draining soil as well as a temperate climate with hot summers to obtain suitable vegetative growth followed by lush summer flowering and abundant final production.
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Magnoliophyta
- Class
- Angiospermae
- Order
- Cucurbitales
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae
- Genus
- Citrullus
- Species
- Citrullus lanatus
Synonyms (22)
- Anguria citrullus
- Citrullus afrorum
- Citrullus anguria
- Citrullus aquosus
- Citrullus battich
- Citrullus chodospermus
- Citrullus edulis
- Citrullus pasteca
- Citrullus vulgaris
- Colocynthis amarissima
- Colocynthis citrullus
- Cucumis amarissimus
- Cucumis citrullus
- Cucumis dissectus
- Cucumis laciniosus
- Cucumis vulgaris
- Cucurbita afra
- Cucurbita anguria
- Cucurbita citrullus
- Cucurbita gigantea
- Cucurbita pinnatifida
- Momordica lanata
