fruit on clamboring vine in silty calcareous soils of drainage flats at west end of earthen flood control dam on Dry Creek arroyo, shaded in roadside thicket with Prosopis, Koeberlinia, Flourensia.
Longitude (deg): -0.5. Latitude (deg): 50.9. Longitude (deg/min): 0ð 30' W. Latitude (deg/min): 50ð 60' N. Vice county name: West Sussex. Vice county no.: 13. Country: England. Stage: Plant. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Category: standard photograph or close-up. Photographic equipment used: Nikon Coolpix 950.
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This plant is a wild watermelon, related to the cultivated one. It is common in the Arabian deserts anbd southwards to Africa. In nature the watermelons are rather small, reaching a diameter of 7-10 cm. After ripe the round fruit dries out and rolls with the winds and winter water along the washes, breaks and dispers the seeds.
licensed media from TrekNature DwCA without owner
TrekNature DwCA
This plant is a wild watermelon, related to the cultivated one. It is common in the Arabian deserts anbd southwards to Africa. In nature the watermelons are rather small, reaching a diameter of 7-10 cm. After ripe the round fruit dries out and rolls with the winds and winter water along the washes, breaks and dispers the seeds.
Interior of the fruiting berry. Seeds in red fleshy pulp. Plant trailing over shrubs on coarse, sandy, alluvial soils of gently sloping coastal plain. Large tuberous root.