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Survives zone 5 through 9
⚠ Honestly: mild, watermelon-ish but widely criticised as BLAND, insipid and seedy — a curiosity.
- Hardiness
- Zone 5 to 9
- Habit
- Tree
- Edible part
- Seed
- Ripens
- Aug–Sept
- Mature size
- Small tree 5–8 m
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil pH
- 6.0–7.5 (lime-tolerant)
- Environment
- Temperate
- Status
- Both wild and cultivated
- Years to fruit
- 4–6 yrs
- Pollination
- DIOECIOUS — needs a female (a male gives better set)