Botanical Name / Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai

Annual climber. Stem much branched, softly hairy; tendrils short, (2—) 3 (4)-branched. Leaves long-petiolate lamina 5—13x 3.5—11 (—15) cm, broadly ovate to ovate in outline, deeply 3-lobed or at times with lateral lobes further divided and lamina appearing 5-lobed, all lobes deeply pinnatifid, hairy, especially beneath and on major nerves above; petiole 2—6(—9) cm long, densely to moderately, long hirsute. Flowers pale yellow, 2.5—3 cm diameter, solitary in leaf axils; pedicel .5 cm long, densely hairy; calyx c. 5 mm long; corolla-lobes 1.2—1.4 X 0.7 mm, broadly ovate, obtuse, strongly veined. Fruit large, up to 20 cm or more diameter, ellipsoid or subglobose, ripening dark green, often marbled with paler grey-green to white markings, flesh white to pinkish-purple. Seeds white through brown or purple to black, longitudinally compressed, very varied in size. (FOC)

Citrullus vulgaris Schrad. ex Ecklon & Zeyher

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