Watermelon
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 Watermelon facts

• lanatus, family Cucurbitaceae) is a vine-like (scrambler and trailer) flowering plant originally from southern Africa
• It is a large, sprawling annual plant with coarse, hairy pinnately-lobed leaves and white to yellow flowers
• It is grown for its large edible fruit, also known as a watermelon, which is a special kind of berry with a hard rind and no internal division, botanically called a pepo
• The fruit has a smooth hard rind—usually green with dark green stripes or yellow spots—and a sweet, juicy interior flesh—usually deep red to pink, but sometimes orange, yellow, or white—with many seeds, which can be soft and white or hard and black
• Considerable breeding effort has been put into disease-resistant varieties and into developing a "seedless" strain with only digestable white seeds
• Many cultivars are available, producing mature fruit within 100 days of planting the crop
• The fruit can be eaten raw, pickled or the rind cooked