Cucumis_melo_2-06082024 © OBG
Cucumis_melo_3-06082024 © OBG
Cucumis_melo_4-06082024 © OBG
Cucumis_melo_5-06082024 © OBG
Cucumis_melo_6-06082024 © OBG
Cucumis_melo_7-06082024 © OBG
Cucumis_melo-06082024 © OBG
Trailing or climbing annual herb . Stems trailing , up to 1 m long , hispid or lanate . Leaves broadly ovate or palmately 3-5-lobed , base cordate , margins ± sinuate-dentate , petiolate ; tendrils branched . Inflorescences monoecious . Flowers male flowers yellow , solitary or in 2–4-flowered fascicles ; female flowers solitary , pedicellate , yellow ; sepals linear ; petals yellow . Fruit ellipsoid or oblong-ellipsoid , glabrous , green to white with darker green longitudinal stripes , pale yellow when ripe ; flesh bitter or non-bitter . Seeds compressed , elliptic in outline , c . 4 . 2 mm long . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 1) .
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
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Cucumis deliciosus Salisb.
Cucumis melo f. typicus Pangalo
Melo sativus Sageret
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Melon
The fruit are sweet and delicious, and must be eaten fresh. They were collected in earlier hungrier and thirstier times. (Ref. Plants of Dhofar).
*Ghazanfar, S. (2003). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.1: Piperaceae – Primulaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 90-72619-55-2 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org *Miller, A., Morris, M. (1988). Plants of Dhofar, the Southern Region of Oman: Traditional, Economic, and Medicinal Uses. Published by Office of the Adviser for Conservation of the Environment, Diwan of Royal Court, Sultanate of Oman; ISBN 10: 0715708082 ISSN 13: 9780715708088. *Hammer, K. Gebauer, J. Al Khanjari, S. Buerkert, A. (2009). Oman at the cross-roads of inter-regional exchange of cultivated plants. Gene Resour Crop Evol (2009) 56:547-560. Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008. DOI 10.1007/s10722-008-9385-z. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
