Bright orange, ovoid fruit 9", with numerous prominent spines. The flesh is bright green, watery, and slightly sweet. The dense, liquid pulp is beautiful emerald green, smelling like banana and tasting like a mix of lime and cucumber. It can be eaten raw or, more popularly, made into a juice or used in sorbets. Cut open the ripe fruit and sprinkle with sugar to enhance the flavor considerably. The seeds are also edible. The horned melon is a vining annual that can be grown practically anywhere, provided there is a warm season. It grows much like pumpkins or watermelons. Plants can produce up to 100 fruits on a single vine. The leaves and stems are hairy. Provide support for the tendrils to grab. Propagation: By seed. Native to Africa, the African melon is now grown commercially on all continents (aside from Antarctica).
