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Banana-shaped
Smooth yellow skin, salmon-pink flesh, firm large tapered fruit 12 x 30cm
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Casaba golden beauty
Sweet and juicy, thick, white aromatic flesh, wrinkled rind, golden when mature, up to 20cm and 3kg
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Champagne
Large dark green oval melon, sweet pale yellow orange flesh
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Charleston Grey
Flesh is bright red, crisp and sweet. Large oblong fruit to 15kg
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Collective farmwoman
Yellowish-white flesh, harvest when skin turns from dark green to orange, smooth round melon 18-25cm
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Crimson Sweet
Popular large melon with large stripes, deep red flesh, up to 10kg
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Droughtmaster
Sweet red flesh, large round dark green skin, long keeping, and more tolerant of dry growing conditions than other melons
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Hales best
Popular, heavy netting, orange flesh, mildew resistant
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Hearts of Gold
Thick orange flesh, firm juicy and highly flavoured
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Honeydew
Green flesh, smooth skin, thick sweet flesh
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Indian cream cobra
A melon with wrier flesh. Splits when ripe.
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Jam Melon
Hardy prolific vines, smooth round fruit, solid white flesh to 5kg
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Kearo's Special
Extremely large fruit, early, sweet, juicy orange flesh
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Klondyke
Striped, large oval melon to 12kg. Thin rind and bright pink flesh. Sweet and juicy
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Minnesota midget
Thick gold-yellow sweet flesh edible to the rind, fine netted fruit to 10cm on 90cm vines
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Moon and starts
Large oval fruit with sweet bright red flesh, dark green skin with large and small yellow patches and spots, 7-14kg
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Mountain Sweet
Sweet dark yellow flesh, oblong fruit 8-12kgs
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Northern Sweet
Red-orange flesh, round, dark green skin with lighter stripe, heavy bearing, very early
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Nutmeg
Fine flavour and aroma, greenish-orange flesh, heirloom variety
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Ogen
Thick pale green flesh tinged salmon around seed cavity, smooth pale yellow rind
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Orangeglo
Very sweet crisp deep orange flesh, large oval fruit 8-12kg
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Planters jumbo
Sweet orange flesh, large oval shaped
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Port Said
Red flesh, pale green skin growing to 40cm. long
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Rockmelon
Sweet summer vine fruit, introduced to Europe from tropical Africa by the Romans
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Small shining light
Sweet red flesh, very dark green skin, round fruit to 30cm, early maturing Russian favourite
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Sugarbaby
Bright red flesh, very sweet, thin tough skin, round, dark green fruit to 20cm. and 3-5 kg
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Sweet Siberian
Extremely sweet apricot coloured flesh, oblong fruit to 4kg
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Watermelon
Originally from Africa. Most popular sweet summer vine fruit.
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Waterpaint
Popular large melon with large stripes, deep red flesh, up to 10kg
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Western beauty
Large yellow fruit with orange spots when fully ripe, sweet and juicy
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Yellow shipper
Yellow flesh, crisp and sweet, tough oblong dark green skin with light green stripes, 6-9kg
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