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Overview: melon (Cucumis melo) is also known as cantaloupe. Cucurbitaceae, melon genus. Annual trailing plant. The fruit is sweet, rich in sugar, starch, and a small amount of protein, minerals and other vitamins. It is mainly eaten fresh, but can also be made into dried fruit, dried fruit, fruit juice, jam and pickles.

Characteristics: melon root system is developed, the main root depth of more than 1 meter, lateral root distribution diameter of 2 meters - 3 meters, but the root regeneration is weak, not suitable for transplantation. Stem round, angular, short prickly hairs, strong branching. Leaves are simple and alternate, with suborbicular or reniform, hairy blades. Flowers axillary, unisexual or bisexual, insect-mediated flowers. Fruit has the shape of globe, ellipsoid globe, spindle, long tube, etc., and the mature pericarp is white, green, yellow, brown or with various color stripes and spots. The fruit surface is smooth or with reticulation, cracks and furrows. Fruit flesh has white, orange-red, green-yellow and other colors, with aroma. The seeds are lanceolate or oblate, and vary in size. Large netting melon thousand grain weight up to 25 grams or so, small sesame seed crisp each grain weight of only 14 grams or so. Melon seeds in 16 ℃ - 18 ℃ when the beginning of germination, 30 ℃ when the fastest germination, the growth of the appropriate temperature of 25 ℃ - 32 ℃, at 40 ℃ when the assimilation is still hot good. Melon requires low air humidity. Melon in the reticulated melon does not tolerate humidity, common melon, followed by the melon, the melon, vegetable melon more humidity. Melon requires good sunshine, in full sunlight less disease, strong plant growth, more results and good quality.

Varieties: According to botanical classification, melon is divided into eight varieties: reticulatus (var. reticulatus), crusty melon var. cantalupensis), winter melon (var. inodorus), ornamental melon (see melon) (var. dudain), lemon melon (var. chito), serpentine There are eight varieties, including melon (chayote) (var. flexuosus), melon (var. makuwa), and koshihikari melon (var. cocomon). According to the ecological characteristics, China usually subdivided melon into thick-skinned melon and bushy-skinned melon two kinds.

Cucumis melo is also known as melon. Cucurbitaceae, melon genus. It is an annual trailing plant. Fruit sweet, rich in sugar, starch, and a small amount of protein, minerals and other vitamins. It is mainly eaten fresh, but can also be made into dried fruit, dried fruit, fruit juice, jam and pickles.

Characteristics: melon root system is developed, the main root depth of more than 1 meter, lateral root distribution diameter of 2 meters - 3 meters, but the root regeneration is weak, not suitable for transplantation. Stem round, angular, short prickly hairs, strong branching. Leaves are simple and alternate, with suborbicular or reniform, hairy blades. Flowers axillary, unisexual or bisexual, insect-mediated flowers. Fruit has the shape of globe, ellipsoid globe, spindle, long tube, etc., and the mature pericarp is white, green, yellow, brown or with various color stripes and spots. The fruit surface is smooth or with reticulation, cracks and furrows. Fruit flesh has white, orange-red, green-yellow and other colors, with aroma. The seeds are lanceolate or oblate, and vary in size. Large netting melon thousand grain weight up to 25 grams or so, small sesame seed crisp each grain weight of only 14 grams or so. Melon seeds in 16 ℃ - 18 ℃ when the beginning of germination, 30 ℃ when the fastest germination, the growth of the appropriate temperature of 25 ℃ - 32 ℃, at 40 ℃ when the assimilation is still hot good. Melon requires low air humidity. Melon in the reticulated melon does not tolerate humidity, common melon, followed by the melon, the melon, vegetable melon more humidity. Melon requires good sunshine, in full sunlight less disease, strong plant growth, more results and good quality.

Varieties: According to botanical classification, melon is divided into eight varieties: reticulatus (var. reticulatus), crusty melon var. cantalupensis), winter melon (var. inodorus), ornamental melon (see melon) (var. dudain), lemon melon (var. chito), serpentine There are eight varieties, including melon (chayote) (var. flexuosus), melon (var. makuwa), and koshihikari melon (var. cocomon). According to the ecological characteristics, China is usually divided into thick-skinned melon and bushy-skinned melon.

Going out to eat, after dinner served raw fruit plate, the combination of watermelon, papaya, cantaloupe, sometimes for the wrinkled skin melon. But often friends say, afraid to eat cantaloupe or wrinkled skin melon after the throat itch, so do not dare to eat more. Nowadays, the new strong cantaloupe, Lanzhou cantaloupe, American cantaloupe and wrinkled-skinned melon that we eat are collectively known as "melon" in ancient times. According to ancient medical books, melon is sweet and cold in nature, and the Compendium of Materia Medica pointed out that it can "quench thirst, remove vexation and heat, and facilitate urination". When it comes to the function of water, melon is not as good as watermelon, but the degree of cold is not the same.

However, the degree of coldness of various melons varies. Cantaloupe and wrinkled skin melon is not so cold, but cold people (throat itching phlegm thin) is not suitable. However, because they can clear the lung heat, so hot cough people (sore throat sound sand, phlegm yellow) is the most appropriate to eat, can be collected to stop coughing, declared the effect of lung gas.

As for the Lanzhou melon and the United States melon, cantaloupe and wrinkled melon cold, women who are prone to dizziness, menstruation and leucorrhea should definitely not. Even if the desserts are made of cantaloupe, it is not advisable to eat more of them for those who are cold and asthmatic. These two kinds of watermelon has a characteristic, will make the body heat on the heating, or cold on the cold. The body of hot and dry people, such as eating a melon, may lose their voices, coughing non-stop, the reason is that the melon's "cold" meets the body's "hot", the two collision, so that the dry fire suddenly B rise. As for those who have a cold body, if you eat the melon, it is cold on top of the cold, may make the symptoms worse, therefore, are eaten sparingly as a good idea

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