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What is the melon festival melon

Festival melon is also known as hairy melon, north melon. Cucurbitaceae annual climbing herbaceous plants. Melon is native to the south of China, suitable for growth in a higher temperature, strong light place. Is one of China's specialty vegetables. Cultivation in Lingnan has a long history, the cultivation area is large. In Hainan, the festival melon cultivation also has many years of history. Festival gourd root system is stronger, but weaker than pumpkin. Stem trailing, five-pronged, stem node axillary buds will occur lateral vines, so branching is strong. At the beginning of the vine, there are tendrils at each node of the stem, and the tendrils are branched, and later there are flower buds, and the flower buds are differentiated into male or female flowers. Fruits are small, slightly longer and thicker than cucumber, 15-25 cm long, 4-10 cm in diameter, hispid skin at maturity, no white waxy powdery coat, skin with fine hairs will be solid, more sensitive to nitrogen.

What does the knotty melon look like

The knotty melon root system is stronger, but weaker than the pumpkin. Stem trailing, leaves five-angled, melon length 10-20 cm, cross diameter 6-8 cm meters, lime green, velvet. The axillary buds of the stem nodes are prone to lateral vines, so the branching force is strong. The beginning of vines, each stem node and tendrils, tendrils branching, and later there are flower buds, flower buds differentiated into male or female flowers. The leaves are alternate, palmately 5-7-lobed, generally 18-20 centimeters long and 20-25 centimeters wide, with small notches on the leaf margins that are small serrated, the leaf surface is green, the leaf back is green, the petiole is round, 10-15 centimeters long, green, and the leaf surface, leaf back, and petiole are all covered with velvet hairs. The flowers of the knapweed are unisexual and solitary.

Flowers

Calyx green, petals yellow, each 5 pieces; male flowers with three stamens, stalk 4-6 cm long, 3-4 mm in transverse diameter; female flowers a pistil, stigma petaloid, trilobed, the ovary inferior, ellipsoid, 3-3.5 cm long, 0.8-1 cm in transverse diameter, green, densely covered with velvet, stipe 2.5-3 cm long, 4-5 mm in transverse diameter of powder. Plants generally develop male flowers first, followed by female flowers. After the first female flowers appear, every few nodes and then develop a female flower, some varieties can be two or more consecutive nodes appear female flowers.

Fruit

The gourd fruit can be divided into short cylindrical and long cylindrical. Young fruit and mature fruit are edible, but generally harvested young fruit for food is preferred. The young fruit is short or long ellipsoidal cylindrical, fruit with several shallow longitudinal grooves or stellate green and white dots, densely covered with hairy, general fruit weight 250-500 grams. Physiological mature fruit, by white wax powder or no, general fruit weight of about 5 kg.

Seeds

The seeds of the knotty melon are nearly ellipsoid, flat, slightly pointed at the end of the seed hole, yellowish white, with raised rings, similar to the pink-skinned winter melon seeds. Each fruit contains 500-800 seeds. Thousand seed weight 42-43 grams. Melon is more sensitive to nitrogen, too much nitrogen, easy to cause prolongation, and easy to infect diseases, affecting the quality of the fruit. Therefore, in the fertilization must pay attention to nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizer with each other.

Section melon is winter melon

Section melon is a variant of winter melon. It also has the effects of clearing heat, relieving heatstroke, detoxifying, diuretic, and reducing swelling, making it an ideal vegetable for hot summers. In addition, it has a certain auxiliary effect on the treatment of kidney disease, edema disease, diabetes and so on. Therefore, knapweed is very popular in people's daily life, whether it is fried or boiled in soup. The knuckleberry has more than 300 years of cultivation history in Guangzhou, China. It is more commonly grown in Guangdong, Guangxi and Taiwan. It can be planted in spring, summer and fall, and is the largest one in the area of melons in Guangdong and Guangxi.

Cultivated throughout China. Southern Yunnan (Xishuangbanna) have wild people, fruit far smaller. Mainly distributed in other tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, eastern Australia and Madagascar also have. In addition to being used as a vegetable, the fruits of this species can also be macerated for a variety of sweets; the rind and seeds are used medicinally for their anti-inflammatory, diuretic, and decongestive effects. It differs from the winter melon (original variety) in that the ovary is dirty-colored or yellow hispid when alive, and the fruit is small, slightly longer and thicker than the cucumber, 15-20(-25) centimeters long and 4-8(-10) centimeters in diameter, and hispid at maturity, with no whitish waxy powdery coat.