Watermelon (also known as: pumpkin), cucurbitaceae pumpkin plants. It is native to Mexico and Central America, and is now planted all over the world.

Pumpkin is an annual trailing herb; stems often rooting at the nodes, densely covered with short white bristles; petioles stout, short bristles; leaf blades broadly ovate or ovate-orbicular; calyx tube campanulate, pilose, enlarged into a leafy upper; corolla yellow, campanulate; filaments glandular, anthers against the closure of the anthers, anther locules folded; female flowers solitary; gourd fruit in various shapes, varying according to the varieties, the outside of the longitudinal grooves often or not; seeds, many, oblong or oblong, gray-white, long. The seeds are numerous, long ovate or oblong, grayish white. It is a temperature-loving short-day plants, drought-resistant, the soil requirements are not strict.