watermelon

Watermelon or watermelon (Citrullus lanatus, cucumber-ketimunan tribe or Cucurbitaceae) is a vine that comes from the half-desert region in southern Africa. This plant is still sekerabat with pumpkin-Labuan (Cucurbitaceae), melon (Cucumis melo) and cucumber (Cucumis sativus). Regular watermelons harvested fruit to be eaten fresh or prepared juices. Watermelon seeds are dried and roasted also edible contents (cotyledons) as pumpkin seeds.



As a member of another tribe cucumber-ketimunan, habitus propagate this plant, but he can not form adventitious roots and can not climb. Propagation range can reach dozens of meters.


The leaves are grooved around the edges. Flowers perfect, yellow, small (3cm diameter). Watermelon is andromonoecious monoclinic, which has two types of flowers on one plant: the male flowers, which has only stamens (stamens), and flower pansy / hermaphrodites, which have stamens and pistils (pistillum). Pansy flowers will be recognizable from a fruit (ovary) at the base of the flower in the form of an oval-shaped enlargement.


Watermelon has a tough skin, solid green or light green with dark green lines-lines. Depending kultivarnya, juicy flesh that is red or yellow.


This plant is fairly resistant to drought, especially when it has entered a period of fruit formation.