Stats

Lifespan: Annual
Size: Medium
Diet: Photosynthetic
Biome: Temperate grassland
Range: Africa
Movement: Sessile
Breeding: Seeds
Defense: Camouflage
Status: Uncommon

About

Cantaloupe is a cultivar group of muskmelon prized for its sweet orange flesh and rough netted rind. A single ripe cantaloupe produces over 250 volatile aromatic compounds — including esters and trace sulfur molecules — responsible for its unmistakable musky fragrance.

Life cycle

1.
seed
A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
2.
sprout
A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
3.
sapling
A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
4.
mature
Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Cucurbitales
Family: Cucurbitaceae
Genus: Cucumis
Species: Cucumis melo