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