Painted Serpent Melon / Cucumber - Heirloom Vegetable - Cucumis melo - 10 Seeds Plant Markers

Painted Serpent Melon / Cucumber - Heirloom Vegetable - Cucumis melo - 10 Seeds Plant MarkersAn heirloom introduced from Armenia into Italy as far back as the 1400's. It is a melon but is used like a cucumber. Picked small (40cm or less), it is very mild and tasty, but the fruits can grow to over 1 m! Prolific yields.

semi-double white flowers on somewhat long flower trusses

Growing to 40cm with attractive triangular leaves and red flowers in winter

as well as Madagascar

top heights of 200-230m

A biennial variety that produces a colourful mixture of red

containing anywhere between 1060 tiny yellow seeds that are compressed with a curved embryo

The fruits of this plant are edible

with simple or complex cymes

The flowers are white

The variety we offer is common hops

and the leaves can be quite variable in colour

Growing up to 16cm with pink flowers