Watermelon

Kordofan melon (C. lanatus ssp. cordophanus): a local form grown by farmers in the Kordofan and Darfur regions of Sudan, with relatively small fruits (about 23 × 21 cm) and sweet white flesh.

Stems are herbaceous and villous with branched tendrils; leaves are ovate and deeply 3–5-lobed. Flowers are yellow; the fruit is large, ellipsoid or subspherical, about 30 cm or more across, green mottled with paler stripes, with red or yellow (rarely white) flesh and usually black seeds.