Night Melon

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About

Common Names
Night Melon / Vajo Crei (Waejir)
Classification
Flowering Fruit bearing Vine
Description
A green-black melon which grows on a vine with pale white night-blooming trumpet flowers. The vines produce small green melons roughly 10-13 centimetres (4-5 inches), with pale yellow flesh,. The outer skin turns darker and nearly black as they ripen.

Ecology

Rarity
Common
Distribution
Sub-tropical to temperate forest, savanna, and plains, Eastern Annexea.
Life Cycle
Dispersed from animals eating the ripened fruit, the melon vines sprout from seeds in early spring and grow throughout the spring and summer seasons, flowering starts in early summer, and continues to produce fruit until mid-autumn.

Related Species

Moon Melon
Yellow Melon

Uses

Cultivation
The Sildaryn propagate night melons along their migration routes as a staple source of fruit,
Culinary
  • Fruit - The dark green-black fruit of this vine is cultivated as a sweet fruit crop.
Medicinal
  • Narcotic - The seeds of this melon are a little known source of a narcotic substance.
Other

History

Cultural
Religious

Stories

See Also

Moonpetal Hinta