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Crimson Sweet is a watermelon cultivar developed at Kansas State University and released in 1963. It produces round to slightly oblong fruit with a light green rind marked by broad dark stripes, red flesh, and dark seeds. The variety is known among home and market growers for its sweet, crisp flesh...
Sugar Baby is a compact watermelon cultivar known for producing small, nearly round fruit suited to household refrigerators, which places it in the icebox watermelon category. The melons typically have a dark green rind and sweet red flesh, while their manageable size makes them practical for home g...
Kleckley Sweet is an American heirloom watermelon introduced in the late nineteenth century and also known as Monte Cristo. It produces elongated fruits with dark green skin and red flesh containing dark seeds. The variety is known among home gardeners for a crisp texture and sweet flavor, but its r...
American heirloom watermelon cultivated by the Bradford family of South Carolina since the 1840s, nearly extinct by the 20th century but revived and celebrated for exceptional sweetness.
Moon and Stars is an American heirloom watermelon cultivar distinguished by a dark green rind marked with yellow spots of varying sizes. The larger spots suggest moons, while the smaller speckles resemble stars; similar markings can also appear on its foliage. Documented in early twentieth-century s...
Charleston Gray is an open-pollinated watermelon cultivar released by the United States Department of Agriculture in 1954. It produces large, elongated fruits with a pale gray-green rind, red flesh, and dark seeds, a form suited to handling and shipment. Developed by plant breeder Charles Fredric An...
The Ruby Red grapefruit is a significant citrus variety discovered as a spontaneous mutation on a pink grapefruit tree in Texas in 1929. It is characterized by its deep red interior flesh, which is noticeably sweeter and less acidic than white or pink grapefruit varieties. Following its discovery, i...
Blacktail Mountain is an open-pollinated watermelon cultivar bred by Glenn Drowns in northern Idaho for regions with short, cool growing seasons. It produces round fruits with dark green rinds and red flesh and is noted for reaching maturity relatively early compared with many larger watermelons. Th...
Sangria is a seeded hybrid watermelon cultivar developed for producing elongated fruits with striped green rinds and firm, deep red flesh. It is grown in home gardens and commercial fields where a conventional large watermelon form, sweetness, and shipping durability are desired. Exact fruit size an...
Triploid seedless watermelon hybrid developed for commercial production, noted for uniform oval fruits, high yields, and the convenience of a seedless eating experience.
Allsweet is an open-pollinated watermelon cultivar known for elongated fruit with alternating light and dark green rind stripes. Mature melons contain red flesh and dark seeds and are generally grown in warm conditions with sufficient space for spreading vines. The variety is used by home gardeners...
Georgia Rattlesnake is an American heirloom watermelon associated with Georgia and documented in cultivation since the 19th century. Its elongated fruits have a light-green rind marked by irregular dark-green stripes resembling a rattlesnake pattern, while the interior contains sweet red flesh and d...
King of Hearts is a seedless watermelon hybrid developed to produce firm red flesh with a sweet flavor and few mature seeds. Like other seedless watermelons, it is a triploid cultivar and normally requires a compatible seeded watermelon nearby to provide pollen for fruit set, even though the harvest...
Millionaire Seedless is a triploid watermelon cultivar bred to produce red-fleshed fruit with only small, soft, undeveloped seed traces rather than mature black seeds. Like other triploid watermelons, it must be grown near a compatible diploid pollinizer because its plants do not provide sufficient...
An improved version of the classic Jubilee watermelon, preserving its large oblong striped fruit while adding enhanced disease resistance for more reliable garden yields.
Red dragon fruit identified as Hylocereus costaricensis is a climbing cactus cultivated for its oval, red-skinned fruit and strongly colored red to purple flesh. It is associated with Central America, including Costa Rica and Nicaragua, and differs visibly from commonly sold dragon fruits that conta...
American heirloom muskmelon introduced in the early 20th century, prized for its sweet aromatic orange flesh and the distinctive cross-pattern netting on its skin.
An heirloom watermelon traditionally grown by the Navajo people of the American Southwest, valued for drought tolerance, cultural heritage, and sweet red or yellow flesh.
A watermelon variety noted for high sugar content and a tough shipping rind, developed to meet the durability and flavor standards of commercial production and roadside sales.
Mickylee is a small, round icebox watermelon cultivar developed for producing fruit of a size convenient for household use and refrigeration. It typically bears striped green fruit with red flesh and commonly reaches about 6 to 8 pounds under suitable growing conditions. Its compact fruit size makes...
An early 20th-century heirloom watermelon with distinctive light- and dark-green striped rind, once a commercial standard in the United States prized for its uniform oval shape.
A small personal-sized watermelon with red flesh and a thin rind, bred for home garden production with an emphasis on early maturity and compact vine habit.
Dixie Queen is an open-pollinated watermelon cultivar long grown in the United States, particularly in Southern gardens. It produces large, broadly rounded fruit with a pale green rind marked by darker green stripes and crisp red flesh containing dark seeds. The variety is intended for gardeners and...
Minilee is an icebox watermelon variety developed specifically to accommodate small gardens, short growing seasons, and urban spaces. Closely related to the Mickylee variety, this compact plant produces spherical, light green watermelons with darker green stripes. The fruit typically reaches maturit...
Fordhook is a name long associated with W. Atlee Burpee & Company's Fordhook Farm in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, the company's trial grounds and breeding facility established in the late 19th century. Muskmelons and other vegetables marketed under the Fordhook name appeared in early 20th-century Burpe...
