Cantaloupe Varieties
(Cucumis melo)
The Cantaloupe is a creeping annual gourd producing round or oval fruits, 10-15cm (4-6”) diameter with a rough, scaly, netted outside skin. Cantaloupe is delicious as a dessert or in a fruit salad.
Honey Rock
This open pollinated cantaloupe produces slightly oval fruit with thick, firm, sweet salmon-orange colored flesh. Fruits can weigh up to 1.5 kg and plants take about 85 days to maturity. This variety is somewhat resistant to Fusarium Wilt.
Mash Melon
Light green, sweet flesh with many seeds.
Antique Fomby Melon
Cambodia
Light green, sweet flesh with many seeds.
Edisto 47
Fruit can weigh up to 2.3kg and has mildly sweet flesh. Well suited for warm, humid climates. 60-90 days to maturity.