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So is this not a watermelon? South Texas for location.
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So is this not a watermelon? South Texas for location.


Made a post before but this is a few weeks later with the fruit and flower now. I've had some people say it's a cucumber but I'm not so sure, I don't typically use AI but in search of more answers it gave me many reasons as to why it was a watermelon and not anything else. Just wanted to gain some more insight from yall if anything.

by CaptainAlyx3005

6 Comments

  3. kunino_sagiri

    It’s neither a watermelon nor a cucumber. It’s a normal melon (Cucumis melo).

    Watermelons have finely cut leaves, so that can be dismissed immediately.

    Cucumber plants do look similar, but the leaves of cucumbers are larger and pointier, and the fruits of cucumbers have spines on them, unlike melon fruits which have a peach fuzz.

  4. PlahausBamBam

    I grew up on a cotton farm in east Alabama and we had vines that my dad called “citrons” that we had to hoe out of the edge of the fields. It looked similar to this and grew watermelon-like fruits that look like your first photo. They were cantaloupe sized with white flesh and black seeds inside.

    Googling citrons brings up something completely different so he may have had the name wrong but it was some kind of wild melon.

    My siblings still live there so I’ll text them and see if they recall.

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