This vegetable is shaped like a chicken leg, yellow-white in color, smooth, fine and firm, yellow-white in color, without black spots.

Fumin water melon is a common aquatic vegetable. It is the spindle-shaped fat part formed by the stimulation of the young stems of the grass plant wild rice by black fungus. It is covered with green leaf sheaths and the edible part is three sections. Cylindrical, shaped like a chicken leg, yellow-white in color, smooth, shiny, tender, fine and firm, yellow-white in color, with less cellulose and no black spots.

It is a specialty of Fumin County, Kunming City, Yunnan Province. Fumin County is located in the low latitudes of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and has a subtropical monsoon climate. The annual average temperature is 16.4°C and the maximum temperature is 33.4°C. It is suitable for growing water melons.