M is for Melons

 Quick. What's the first thing that comes to mind when I say melons? For me it was watermelon, but I've come to find out that technically it's not a melon at all. Before I go down this hole, first let me have the disclaimer that I am not a botanist and the only botany I have ever studied was paleobotany and most of those plants were extinct.

Watermelon is a melon in practical terms. But biologically speaking, it's not. Melons are in the a different genus from melons but are cousins so to speak as they are in the same order/family? Getting a little mixed up on my taxonomy here.

Yellow watermelon grown by Uncle Billy.

Well, this post is going nowhere. Other activities have kept me from having much time to sit down at the computer and work on a post. I was ahead with posts, but now I'm behind. I was going to finish up this morning before I went to work, but Ward has been in loud meetings all morning and I can't seem to gather my thoughts among the ones that are being discussed with Ward and his colleagues.

So here's what I might have talked about.

M is for melons.

Watermelon, botanically, is not a melon.

Frozen watermelon to use in drinks
or just a cool snack.

Confusion abounds among the terms of fruit, vegetable, melon, gourd, berry, etc.

Explorers used watermelon as canteens.

Wally, who will eat almost anything does not like cantaloupe, a true melon. I love it.

Watermelons originated in Africa.

Hieroglyphics depict watermelon harvest.

Times up. Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work I go.