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The horned melon (Cucumis metuliferus), also called African horned cucumber or melon, jelly melon, hedged gourd, English tomato, melano, or kiwano and also known as "cherie", is an annual vine in the cucumber and melon family. The fruit of this plant is edible. When ripe, it has a yellow-orange skin and a lime green jelly-like flesh with the taste similar to a banana and texture similar to a cucumber. The horned melon is native to Africa. Hairy climber, yellow funnel-shaped flowers in Summer-Autumn, fruits marbled green ripening to bright orange with hard sharp spines. Sow Spring.

Seeds per pack - 10 Seeds

Country of Origin - Proudly produced in South Africa by Sandveld Organics

Certified Organic by - KIWA BCS ÖKO-GARANTIE GmbH

About the producer - Seeds for Africa and Sandveld Organics have entered into an exclusive strategic partnership to offer a large range of South African grown certified organic seeds. Sandveld Organics are an organic farm in Lamberts Bay on the Cape West Coast. Founded in 1998 Sandveld Organics has achieved and maintained organic certification with KIWA BCS ÖKO-GARANTIE GmbH since 1998. Sandveld Organics are the ONLY South African company growing certified organic seed.

Heavily ribbed, light green cucumbers with mild, sweet taste. Very long fruit, best eaten when 60cm long and less than 6cm across. Oriental. 70 days.

Plant produces excellent yields of 8" long pale green cucumbers. Excellent slicing cucumber for salads. Easy to grow.

The horned melon (Cucumis metuliferus), also called African horned cucumber or melon, jelly melon, hedged gourd, English tomato, melano, or kiwano and also known as "cherie", is an annual vine in the cucumber and melon family. The fruit of this plant is edible. When ripe, it has a yellow-orange skin and a lime green jelly-like flesh with the taste similar to a banana and texture similar to a cucumber. The horned melon is native to Africa. Hairy climber, yellow funnel-shaped flowers in Summer-Autumn, fruits marbled green ripening to bright orange with hard sharp spines. Sow Spring.

 Variety - English Cucumber - Trimax F1 Hybrid

Scientific name - Cucumis sativus

Approximate seeds per gram - N/A

Pack Size - 100 seeds

Description - Trimax is a disease resistant variety making it ideal for organic gardeners. The fruits are produced in abundance, from 50 to 100 per plant, and have a mild flavour with no bitter after taste. Fruits grow from 32cm to 38cm. This climbing English Cucumber is easy to train up a trellis. The plant can reach heights of 2.5 metres and has a spread of up to 45cm.

Seed is of commercial quality and has been pretreated with a fungicide coating.

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Trimax is a disease resistant variety making it ideal for organic gardeners. The fruits are produced in abundance, from 50 to 100 per plant, and have a mild flavour with no bitter after taste. Fruits grow from 32cm to 38cm. This climbing English Cucumber is easy to train up a trellis. The plant can reach heights of 2.5 metres and has a spread of up to 45cm.

Seed is of commercial quality and has been pretreated with a fungicide coating.

Very uniform and unique variety is a prolific yielder that keeps producing late in the season when others have stopped. 3" diameter, round, yellow cucumbers are juicy, crisp and refreshing. Great for fresh slicing and pickling. Have the patience to wait for this one, they are as wonderfully tasting as they are attractive.

 Variety - Straight 8 Cucumber

Scientific name - Cucumis sativus

Approximate seeds per gram - 35

Pack Size - 100 grams

Description - Long, slender, dark green cucumbers. The slender, refined "Marketmore " has 20cm to 23cm fruits staying uniformly dark green even under weather stress. Begins bearing late, but picks for a relatively long time. Intermediate resistance to cucumber mosaic virus, downy mildew, and powdery mildew.

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 Variety - Mouse Melon

Scientific name - Melothria scabra

Approximate seeds per gram - N/A

Pack Size - 100 seeds

Description - Melothria scabra is a vine grown for its edible fruit. Fruit are about the size of grapes and taste like cucumbers with a tinge of sourness. They are also known as mouse melon, Mexican sour gherkin, cucamelon, Mexican miniature watermelon and Mexican sour cucumber. This plant is native to Mexico and Central America, where it is called sandiita (little watermelon). It is believed to have been a domesticated crop before western contact began. These plants are relatively slow-growing when they are establishing themselves, but can eventually grow up to ten feet under proper conditions. They are drought resistant and pest-resistant relative to other cucumbers. Similar to the cucumber, these plants are monoecious, producing both male and female flowers on the same plant. These plants can pollinate themselves, but the individual flowers are not self-fertile. Flowers are small and yellow, about four millimeters in diameter. Fruits develop at the base of the female flower.

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An heirloom introduced from Armenia into Italy as far back as the 1400's. It is a melon but is used like a cucumber. Picked small (40cm or less), it is very mild and tasty, but the fruits can grow to over 1 m! Prolific yields.