Details for: PI 53899, Cucumis melo L., 'Sweet melon'


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Cucumis melo L.
Cultivar:
'Sweet melon'
Origin:
Collected – West Bengal, India
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
07 Jul 1921
PI Assigned:
1921
Life Form:
Vine
Life Cycle:
Annual
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Cucumis melo L.
Cultivar:
'Sweet melon'
Origin:
Collected – West Bengal, India
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
07 Jul 1921
PI Assigned:
1921
Life Form:
Vine
Life Cycle:
Annual
Source History
Accession Names and Identifiers
'Sweet melon'
Type: Cultivar name

Narrative
An herbaceous climber, said to be native to northwestern India, Baluchistan, and west tropical Africa; extesively cultivated for its fruit in the sandy basins of rivers. The fruit is round, green or yellowish, the skin covered with a network of raised brown lines. The fruit is eaten uncooked in a variety of ways. The pulp is usually sweetish and pleasant and is eaten by Europeans as well as by natives. A sweet edible oil is obtained from the seeds, and the seeds and fruit pulp are used medicinally. (Watt; Dictionary of the Economic Products of India; Vol 2, p. 627.)
Cucumis melo L.
Genus:
Cucumis
Subgenus:
Cucumis
Section:
Cucumis
Family:
Cucurbitaceae
Tribe:
Benincaseae
Nomen number:

404410
Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 2:1011. 1753
Verified:
02/06/1996 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Cucumis melo L. subsp. agrestis (Naudin) Pangalo (171 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo L. subsp. agrestis (Naudin) Pangalo var. agrestis Naudin (0 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo L. subsp. agrestis (Naudin) Pangalo var. chate (Hasselq.) Sageret (0 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo L. subsp. agrestis (Naudin) Pangalo var. chito (C. Morren) Naudin (1 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo L. subsp. agrestis (Naudin) Pangalo var. conomon (Thunb.) Makino (3 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo L. subsp. agrestis (Naudin) Pangalo var. dudaim (L.) Naudin (0 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo L. subsp. agrestis (Naudin) Pangalo var. momordica (Roxb.) Duthie & J. B. Fuller (0 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo L. subsp. agrestis (Naudin) Pangalo var. texanus Naudin (45 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo L. subsp. melo (3056 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo L. subsp. melo var. cantalupo Ser. (21 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo L. subsp. melo var. flexuosus (L.) Naudin (47 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo L. subsp. melo var. inodorus H. Jacq. (3 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo L. var. melo (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
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Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
EnglishHami melon  1Aierken, Y. et al. 2011. Molecular analysis of the genetic diversity of Chines Hami melon and its relationship to the melon germplasm from Central and South Asia. J. Jap. Soc. Hort. Sci. 80:52-65.
Englishmelon  1Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
GermanMelone  2Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1340.
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