Cultivos Extensive crops Forage crops Cereals Industrial crops Horticultural crops Leaf vegetables Fruit vegetables Others Fruit trees Citrus trees Stone fruits Pipfruit Others Wine and Olive trees Olive tree Table grape Wine grape Ornamentals Ornamentals

Watermelon

Watermelon contains about 6% sugar and 92% water by weight. As with many other fruits, it is a source of vitamin C. It is not a significant source of other vitamins and minerals.
This flowering plant produces a special type of fruit known by botanists as a pepo, a berry, which has a thick rind (exocarp) and fleshy center (mesocarp and endocarp); pepos are derived from an inferior ovary and are characteristic of the Cucurbitaceae. The watermelon fruit, loosely considered a type of melon, has a smooth exterior rind (green, yellow, and sometimes white) and a juicy, sweet interior flesh (usually pink, but sometimes orange, yellow, red, and sometimes green if not ripe).
There are more than twelve hundred varieties of watermelon ranging in size from less than a pound, to more than two hundred pounds with flesh that is red, orange, yellow, or white.