- published: 04 Nov 2015
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Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.), family Cucurbitaceae) is a vine-like (scrambler and trailer) flowering plant originally from southern Africa. Its fruit, which is also called watermelon, is a special kind referred to by botanists as a pepo, a berry which has a thick rind (exocarp) and fleshy center (mesocarp and endocarp). Pepos are derived from an inferior ovary, and are characteristic of the Cucurbitaceae. The watermelon fruit, loosely considered a type of melon – although not in the genus Cucumis – has a smooth exterior rind (green, yellow and sometimes white) and a juicy, sweet interior flesh (usually deep red to pink, but sometimes orange, yellow and even green if not ripe). It is also commonly used to make a variety of salads, most notably fruit salad.
Watermelon is thought to have originated in southern Africa, where it is found growing wild, because it reaches maximum genetic diversity there, resulting in sweet, bland and bitter forms. Alphonse de Candolle, in 1882, already considered the evidence sufficient to prove that watermelon was indigenous to tropical Africa. Though Citrullus colocynthis is often considered to be a wild ancestor of watermelon and is now found native in north and west Africa, Fenny Dane and Jiarong Liu suggest on the basis of chloroplast DNA investigations that the cultivated and wild watermelon appear to have diverged independently from a common ancestor, possibly C. ecirrhosus from Namibia.
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When I had got to the place where I had planted those seeds
It was the biggest thing that I'd ever seen
Like a giant football but the color was green
Chorus:
Slurp (Ptt!), Slurp (Ptt!), Slurp (Ptt!), Ahh!
Slurp (Ptt!), Slurp (Ptt!), Slurp (Ptt!), Ahh!
W-A-T-E-R-M-E-L-O-N (What's that spell?)
Watermelon!
W-A-T-E-R-M-E-L-O-N
I sat down the other day just to have a little snack
I took a piece of watermelon out of my sack
It ran down my chin and on to my clothes
I got it in my hair, man, I got it up my nose
Chorus
You know it's green on the outside, pink on the in
But your stomach's gonna ache if you eat the white skin
And you better spit the seeds, cause I'm telling you, brother
They're gonna come out one end or the other