Data sources

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Sourced10 Source not recorded8 Not on the record1 Sources: TRY Plant Trait Database

Field	Shown	What the sources say
Core
Author	L.	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Bibliography	Sp. Pl.: 1011 (1753)	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Phylum	Tracheophyta	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Rank	species	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Status	accepted	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Year	1753	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Descriptive
Common name	Melon	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Observations	Ethiopia to S. Africa, SW. Syria to Arabian Pen. and Indian Subcontinent, N. & C. Australia	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Morphology
Average height	225 cm	225 cm · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 4 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 116, 500, 818, 918	Sourced
Biological type	therophyte	therophyte · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 4 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 350, 500, 918	Sourced
Flower color	yellow	yellow · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 3 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 350, 882	Sourced
Fruit color	yellow, green	green, yellow · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 4 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 882	Sourced
Fruit shape	berry	berry · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 5 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 350, 882	Sourced
Inflorescence type	solitary	solitary · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 2 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 350	Sourced
Phenology
Duration	annual	annual · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 19 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 25, 28, 460, 818, 882, 918	Sourced
Fruit months	feb, mar, apr, may, jun, jul, aug, sep, oct, nov	feb, mar, apr, may, jun, jul, aug, sep, oct, nov · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 2 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 882	Sourced
Ecology
Nitrogen fixation	None	None · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 9 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 71, 444, 445, 614, 721, 882	Sourced
Cultivation
Minimum root depth	64 cm	64 cm · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 2 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 818	Sourced
Other
Halophyte status	—	Moderate · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 2 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 882	Not on the record

Cucumis melo L., 1753 27% complete

Melon

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