Seed melon is a sub-variety of watermelon, which inherits most of the appearance characteristics of watermelon, but its size is not as good as watermelon.

Seed melon can be divided into red seed melon and black seed melon according to the color of seed shell, and can be divided into large, medium and small pieces according to the size of melon seeds. At present, medium-sized black melon seeds are the mainstream of the market, while large melon seeds or red melon seeds are a few varieties.

China is the country with the largest number of melons, and it is also the birthplace of melons. Red-seeded melon has a long history, and the earliest historical record can be traced back to the cultivation history of Xinfeng County, Jiangxi Province from 65438 to 0664.

The historical record of black-seeded melon is a century later. According to historical records,/kloc-0 was planted in Gaolan County, Gansu Province in 774. Domestic varieties of black-seeded melons are basically handed down from central Gansu. The main producing area of foreign black seed melon is Thailand, which is actually a seed melon variety introduced from Gansu around 1950.