| Scientific Name: | Cucumis melo |
| Common Name: | cantaloupe, honeydew, muskmelon |
| Family Name: | Cucurbitaceae |
| Origin: | Australia / New Zealand |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 8a: (-12 to -9.5 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (true), Greenhouse produce plant, Vine or climber |
| Mature Size: | 2 - 3m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Horizontal, Spreading |
| Form: | Climbing, Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Urban agriculture |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Prickly, Pubescent, Orbicular, Ovate, Dentate, Serrate, Sinuate |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, Yellow, Apr |
| Fruit: | Edible, Pepo, Yellow, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, ovate-orbicular, most 10-30cm wide, margins toothed and/ or lobed, on long runners, unbranched stem tendrils at nodes; flowers yellow, 5 petals (fused at base), up to 7cm wide; fruit a muskmelon (e.g. cantaloupe, honeydew, etc.). | |