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Citrullus lanatus - Flower - Click to enlarge!

Flower; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 6/2006 © Jörn Germer

Citrullus lanatus - Flower, side view - Click to enlarge!

Flower, side view; Nigeria; 1/2013 © Ralf Biechele

Citrullus lanatus - Leaf - Click to enlarge!

Leaf; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 6/2006 © Jörn Germer

Citrullus lanatus - Stem - Click to enlarge!

Stem; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 6/2006 © Jörn Germer

Citrullus lanatus - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 6/2006 © Jörn Germer

Citrullus lanatus - Fruit - Click to enlarge!

Fruit; Nigeria; 1/2013 © Ralf Biechele

Citrullus lanatus - Habit in field - Click to enlarge!

Habit in field; Floresta, Pernambuco, Brazil; 3/2012 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 363
Date of entry: 07.07.2006
Last update: 12.01.2020

Common name

English: Watermelon

German: Wassermelone

Mandarin: 西瓜 (xi gua)

Portuguese: Melancia

Spanish: Sandía

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Cucurbitales (26)

        Family: Cucurbitaceae (26)(family description)

          Genus: Citrullus (1)

            Epithet: lanatus (Thunb.) Matsumura & Nakai (2)

lanatus => woolly or cottony, covered with long inter-grown curly hairs

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: yellow

External links

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