Paddymelon
Oblong Large Fruit
Paddymelon
Fruit, compared with large glove
Animals
Plants
Info
| Paddymelon Oblong Large Fruit | | Paddymelon Fruit, compared with large glove | | ||
Animals Plants Info |
 | Class: | Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida) | ||||||||||||||
| Order: | Vines (Cucurbitales) | |||||||||||||||
| Family: | Gourd (Cucurbitaceae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||||
| Species: | Paddymelon (Citrullus colocynthis)| This Photo: | Fruit, compared with Prickly (left) | Other names: | Bitter Apple or Paddy Melon | Thank you Thomas Friedrich (thomasfriedrich) for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found in the Murray Mallee SA and possibly elsewhere Fruits we've measure were between ~90mm up to ~180mm wide, with yellow flowers being ~25mm wide. But this is a good comparision between the large and prickly paddymelons, as well as a mallee leaf. The fuit is covered in transparent 'hairs', which don't seem to change much in size as the fruit grows. Being very 'fury' when young & small to barely visible when ripe & large. The fruits are generally spherical, but can become eliptoid with age.
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