Flowers, melons, and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, near Burketown, Qld

Flowers, melon, and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, near Burketown, Qld

Flowers, melon, and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, near Burketown, Qld

Common Name

Ulcardo Melon, Rock Melon

Family

Cucurbitaceae

Notes

Prostrate or climbing annual vine, stems to 6m long. Leaves alternating along the stems, 2-9cm long, 30-80mm wide, rough, hairy, 3-7 lobed, with toothed margins. Male and female flowers on the same plant. Flowers tubular, yellow, with 5 lobes, solitary or in clusters of 2-4 on stalks arising from the bases of the leaves. Fruit green to yellow.  Cucumis melo in SA.

Description and photo (as Cucumis melo) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 625

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=in&name=Cucumis~melo~subsp.+agrestis