Melon plants produce sweet, juicy fruits with a fragrant aroma. They are grown for fresh consumption and culinary use. Inputs Hardiness zone 91 Hardiness zone 101 Hardiness zone 111 Outputs Human food2 Type Cucumis spp. - Cucumbers and Melons Annual Vine Footnotes Cucumis melo | Plants for a Future ↩ ↩2 ↩3 Gaia’s Garden - A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition Table 10-1 ↩