{"id":68,"date":"2009-06-22T22:20:10","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T05:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quantum-immortal.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/22\/monday-magnoliophyte-honeydew-melon\/"},"modified":"2009-06-22T22:20:10","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T05:20:10","slug":"monday-magnoliophyte-honeydew-melon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum-immortal.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/22\/monday-magnoliophyte-honeydew-melon\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Magnoliophyte: Honeydew Melon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I missed last week, I suppose I&#8217;ll do a second one today. Sometimes I&#8217;ll just take seed of stuff I buy at the market and save them for planting once we eat them. A while ago I did this with the seed of a honeydew melon, and lo-and-behold, it took off and started producing a melon. It&#8217;s small and a bit misshapen right now, but perhaps someday we&#8217;ll be able to eat it. Now, the melon family Cucurbitaceae is a large one, and also includes cucumbers, squashes, and gourds. It is one of the oldest groups of cultivated plants in both the New and Old Worlds, and it&#8217;s easy to see why they are so useful. In addition to a nice, easy to eat, soft, pulpy flesh, you get a storage container free of charge. It&#8217;s waterproof, easy to decorate, and lasts for a long time with minimal curing investment. Being a vine, they are also fairly easy to grow. The fruit is a type of epigynous berry called a <strong>pepo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quantum-immortal.net\/blog\/imgs\/melon.jpg\" alt=\"Honeydew\" \/><br \/>\nEudicots; Cucurbitales; Cucurbitaceae; <em>Cucumis melo<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The honeydew is actually a cultivar of the muskmelon <em>Cucumis melo<\/em>, which is native to northwestern India. Other cultivars include the Crenshaw melon and the cantaloupe. The species is divided into 8 cultivar groups, with the honeydew belonging to the Inodorus Group. We know it best as a sweet melon with a pale green or orange flesh and medium-sized whitish seeds, great for breakfast or desserts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I missed last week, I suppose I&#8217;ll do a second one today. Sometimes I&#8217;ll just take seed of stuff I buy at the market and save them for planting once we eat them. A while ago I did this with the seed of a honeydew melon, and lo-and-behold, it took off and started producing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum-immortal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum-immortal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum-immortal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum-immortal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum-immortal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quantum-immortal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum-immortal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum-immortal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum-immortal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}