Melon

Melon is a climbing plant. It’s very cultivated in for its edible, scented and sweet fruits. It’s a creeping herbal plant and its roots can be longer than 150 cm. Instead of its important flowering (from may to september) only the 10% of the flowers becomes fruit. Melon has a big fruit, oval or circular. It’s pulp is really scented and flavoured and contains many seeds. It contains huge quantities of phosphorus so it’s really useful for the bones while beta-carotene helps producing melanin, so it’s really useful for tanning, too.