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Cucumis melo var. flexuosus
Also called Musk Melon, European Cantaloupe, Melon, Cantaloupe
A long, slender, bumpless melon variety (Cucumis melo var. flexuosus) that tastes like a cucumber and is grown for its thin-skinned fruit, which is usually eaten unpeeled. It grows best in full sun, either sprawling on the ground or climbing a trellis.
The Armenian cucumber, Cucumis melo Flexuosus Group or Cucumis melo var. flexuosus, is a type of long, slender fruit which tastes somewhat like a cucumber and looks somewhat like a cucumber inside. It is actually a variety of true melon (C. melo), a species closely related to the cucumber (C. sativus). It is also known as the yard-long cucumber, snake cucumber, snake melon, Varunk in Armenian, chanbar in Persian, sheng in Semnani, tirozî in Kurdish,
chirimenhosonagauri in Japanese, acur in Turkish, kakadee in Hindi, tar in Punjabi, قثاء in Arabic, commarella or tortarello in Italian, alficòs in Catalan. It should not be confused with the snake gourds (Trichosanthes spp.). The skin is very thin, light green, and bumpless. It has no bitterness and the fruit is almost always used without peeling. It is also sometimes called a gutah.
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