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Solanum muricatum is a species of plant in the family Solanaceae. It belongs to the genus Solanum and is classified within the order Solanales, class Magnoliopsida, phylum Tracheophyta, and kingdom Plantae. The species is commonly known as pepino, Pepino dulce, or 香瓜茄.
Records for this taxon are held by institutions including INECOL, NY, US, SD, and BRY. Specimens have been documented in Mexico, the United States, Peru, Brazil, and Ecuador. The taxon range is listed as the Tibet Autonomous Region. There are 521 occurrence records and 143 records with 126 media files associated with this species.
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Species
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderSolanales
- FamilySolanaceae
Der Titel dieses Artikels ist mehrdeutig. Zur gleichnamigen Gemeinde in der spanischen Provinz Toledo siehe Pepino (Toledo), zum gleichnamigen Maler siehe Anton Josef Pepino. Habitus einer Pflanze mit Fruchtansatz Pepinofrucht Pepinofrucht aufgeschnitten Die Pepino oder auch Melonenbirne (Solanum muricatum, spanisch pepino dulce, pepino melón, pera melón, pepino de fruta, melón de árbol) ist eine Pflanzenart aus der Familie der Nachtschattengewächse (Solanaceae). Ihre ursprüngliche Heimat ist Südamerika. Sie wird heute in Kolumbien, Peru, Chile, Kalifornien, Florida, der Schweiz und Südspanien angebaut.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 143
- With media
- 126
- Family
- Solanaceae
- Collections
- INECOL, NY, US, SD, BRY, IND
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States, Peru, Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador, Colombia, Ethiopia
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- taxon common name
- 香艳茄
- short name
- S. muricatum
- taxon range
- Tibet Autonomous Region
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Encyclopedic overview
Solanum muricatum is a species of evergreen shrub native to South America and grown for its sweet edible fruit.
It is known as pepino dulce ("sweet cucumber" in English, in order to differentiate it from cucumber which is also called "pepino" in Spanish) or simply pepino. The pepino dulce fruit resembles a melon (Cucumis melo) in color, and its flavor recalls a succulent mixture of honeydew and cucumber, and thus it is also sometimes called pepino melon or melon pear. Another common name, tree melon, is more often used for the papaya (Carica papaya) though the pepino dulce plant generally does not look much like a tree; it looks more like a ground cover, trailing plant. The present species is, however, a close relative of other nightshades cultivated for their fruit, including the tomato (S. lycopersicum) and the eggplant/aubergine (S. melongena), which its own fruit closely resembles.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Solanum muricatum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.