watermelon

Watermelon or watermelon (Citrullus lanatus, cucumber-ketimunan tribe or Cucurbitaceae) is a vine that comes from half-desert region in southern Africa. The plant is still sekerabat with melon (Cucumis melo) and cucumber (Cucumis sativus). Usually harvested watermelon fruit to be eaten fresh or made juice. Melon seeds dried and roasted it can also be eaten (cotyledon) as seeds.

As members of the tribe ketimunan cucumber-other, this plant habitus vines but he can not form roots and adventif can not climb. Range of propagation can reach dozens of meters.

The leaves are grooved on the edges. Flowers perfect, yellow, small (3cm diameter). Watermelon is andromonoecious monoklin, which has two kinds of flowers on one plant: male flowers, which only has a stamen (stamen), and flower pansy / hermaphrodites, which have stamens and pistils (pistillum). Pansy flower can be identified from the fruit (ovary) at the base of the flower of oval enlargement.

Watermelon fruit has a tough skin, dark green or light green with strips of dark green. Depending kultivarnya, watery flesh red or yellow.

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