Watermelon (citrullus Vulgaris)

We are offering watermelon is thought to have originated in southern africa, where it is found growing wild. It reaches maximum genetic diversity there, with sweet, bland and bitter forms. In the 19th century, alphonse de candolle claimed the 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, it has been suggested on the basis of chloroplast dna investigations that the cultivated and wild watermelon diverged independently from a common ancestor, possibly c. Ecirrhosus from namibia.....read more