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Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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First Record: Kirk, T. T.N.Z.I. 2: 138 (1870), as Cucurbita citrullus L. Also recorded as Citrullus vulgaris Schrad. in New Zealand.

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Matsum. & Nakai
Thunb.
(Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai
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Citrullus lanatus

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Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai

Annual with long, procumbent, densely softly hairy stems. Petioles to c. 8 cm long, with dense, soft hairs. Lamina pinnatisect, often almost divided to midrib, to c. 15 × 13 cm, broad-ovate; lobes irregularly subdivided or toothed, hairy, blunt. Peduncles 1-3 cm long, densely hairy. Calyx lobed to 1/2 way or more, usually densely hairy; lobes narrow-lanceolate to linear. Corolla lobed nearly to base; lobes 12-16 × 8-12 mm, often unequal, ± elliptic, yellow with green raised veins, obtuse or mucronate. Ovary woolly at first, soon glabrate. Fr. subglobose to ± ellipsoid, becoming very large (to > 40 cm long in cultivation); rind green, hard; pulp red, sweet and very succulent. Seeds dark, shining.

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Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai
Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai
Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai
Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai
Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai
Citrullus vulgaris Schrad.
Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai

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Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai
Cook Islands
Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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6ea599fc-380f-41df-8ec6-6baff03d9eaf
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1 January 2000
23 April 2020
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