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Watermelon is a flowering plant species of the Cucurbitaceae family and the name of its edible fruit.
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- The rind is purple/black and has many small yellow circles (stars) and one or two large yellow circles (moon).
- The 'Moon and Stars' variety was created in 1926.
- It takes about 90–100 days from planting to harvest.
- It has a light green rind with jagged dark green stripes.
- The 'Orangeglo' has a very sweet orange flesh, and is a large, oblong fruit weighing 9–14 kg (20–31 lb).
- The 'Golden Midget' has a golden rind and pink flesh when ripe, and takes 70 days from planting to harvest.
- It takes about 90 days from planting to harvest.
- It has green skin, red flesh and commonly produces fruit between 29 and 68 kg (65 and 150 lb).
- The 'Carolina Cross' produced the current world record for heaviest watermelon, weighing 159 kg (351 lb).
- The more than 1,200 cultivars of watermelon range in weight from less than 1 kilogram (2+1⁄4 pounds) to more than 90 kg (200 lb); the flesh can be red, pink, orange, yellow or white.
- *C. colocynthis* (L.) Schrad. ex Eckl. & Zeyh., *C. rehmii* De Winter, and *C. naudinianus* (Sond.) Hook.f.
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- Additionally, other wild species have bitter fruit containing cucurbitacin.
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- This West African species is the closest wild relative of the watermelon. It is cultivated for cattle feed.
- This is Linnaeus's sweet watermelon; it has been grown for human consumption for thousands of years.
- A small-fruited form with a bumpy skin has caused poisoning in sheep.
- Another variety known as *karkoer* or *bitterboela* is unpalatable to humans, but the seeds may be eaten.
- The variety was an important food source for travellers in the Kalahari Desert.
- The variety known as *tsamma* is grown for its juicy white flesh.
- *C. caffer* Schrad. is a synonym of *C. amarus* Schrad.
- The citron melon or makataan – a variety with sweet yellow flesh that is cultivated around the world for fodder and the production of citron peel and pectin.
- It is not a form of the sweet watermelon *C. vulgaris* nor closely related to that species.
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- *C. lanatus* and also the same as *C. amarus* Schrad.
- DNA data reveal that *C. lanatus* var. *citroides* Bailey is the same as Thunberg's bitter wooly melon,
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- The amino acid citrulline is produced in watermelon rind.
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- Watermelon pulp contains carotenoids, including lycopene.
- The amino acid citrulline is produced in watermelon rind.
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- Only vitamin C is present in appreciable content at 10% of the Daily Value (table).
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- In a 100-gram (3+1⁄2-ounce) serving, watermelon fruit supplies 125 kilojoules (30 kilocalories) of food energy and low amounts of essential nutrients (see table).
- Watermelon fruit is 91% water, contains 6% sugars, and is low in fat (table).
- unlike other wild African varieties from other regions, indicating a common origin, possibly cultivated in the Nile Valley by 4360 BP (before present).
- The kordofan melon shares with the domestic watermelon loss of the bitterness gene, while maintaining a sweet taste,
- A melon from the Kordofan region of Sudan – the kordofan melon – may be the progenitor of the modern, domesticated watermelon.
- rising to nearly 85% of total watermelon sales in the United States in 2014.
- Seedless watermelons became more popular in the 21st century,
- which remained rare initially because they did not have sufficient disease resistance.
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- Seedless watermelons were initially developed in 1939 by Japanese scientists who were able to create seedless triploid hybrids,
- a fruit long associated with laziness and uncleanliness.
- The sentiment evolved into a racist stereotype where black people shared a supposed voracious appetite for watermelon,
- After the Civil War, black people were maligned for their association with watermelon.