Common melon are: watermelon, winter melon, pumpkin, melon, melon, cantaloupe, cucumber, squash, long melon, pear melon and so on.

1, watermelon, annual trailing vine; cultivated throughout China, many varieties, exocarp, pulp and seeds in a variety of forms, to Xinjiang, Gansu Lanzhou, Shandong Dezhou, Jiangsu Dongtai and other places most famous. The original species may have come from Africa, and is widely cultivated in the tropical to temperate zones of the world, and later introduced into China.

2, winter melon, cucurbitaceae winter melon annual trailing or shelf herbs, stems yellow-brown bristly and villous, angular grooves, petioles stout, coarsely bristly and villous, monoecious, flowers solitary, fruit long terete or subglobose, large, bristly and glaucous, seeds ovate.

3, pumpkin, cucurbitaceae pumpkin genus of a species, annual trailing herbs, stems often nodes rooted, petiole stout, leaf blade broadly ovate or ovoid, texture slightly soft, veins raised, tendrils slightly stout, monoecious, fruiting pedicels stout, ribbed and grooved, depending on the species.

4, Buddha's hand melon (, also known as a thousand gold melon, Hayabusa melon, Annan melon, Shou melon, Wo melon, foreign melon, Hapu melon, holding melon, soil ear melon, shed melon, tiger melon, etc., is a cucurbitaceae Buddha's hand melon plants.

5, melon, also known as melon, cantaloupe, etc.. Widely cultivated throughout China. The world temperate to tropical areas are also widely cultivated. Because of the long cultivation of this species, a variety of varieties, fruit shape, color, size and flavor varies according to varieties, horticulture is divided into dozens of strains, such as common melon, cantaloupe, white orchid melons and so on belong to different strains.

6, cucumber, alias: Hu melon, prickly melon, king melon, diligent melon, green melon, Tang melon, hanging melon. Oblong or cylindrical, yellow-green when ripe, rough surface, with a spiny tip of the tumor-like protrusions.

7, cantaloupe, different forms, unique flavor, melon flesh is thick, crisp and refreshing. Hami melon is rich in nutrients, sugar content of up to 21%. Hami melon in the Eastern Han Dynasty Yongping years has become a tribute to the exotic melon species.

8, lucerne, cucurbitaceae annual climbing vine; stem, branches rough, furrowed, puberulent. Tendrils slightly stout, pubescent, usually 2-4 manifold. Petiole rough, subglabrous; leaf blade triangular or suborbicular, usually palmately 5-7-lobed, lobes triangular dark green above, rough, warty, light green below, pubescent, veins palmate, white pubescent.

9, long melon? , the plant grows vigorously, strong branching, green leaves, heart-shaped, densely white velvet, to lateral trailing fruit.

10, pear melon, the fruit is usually spherical, pear-shaped, smooth skin, with longitudinal grooves, or mottled, without spiny protrusions, the flesh white, yellow, sweet flavor. The fruit consists of five carpels, the seeds are inserted on the margins of the carpels, belonging to the parietal placenta, and in the center of each carpel there is a false septum formed by the derivation of the midrib.