Striped Flowers Of A Solanum Muricatum Or Pepino Melon Plant Stock Photo

Solanum muricatum is an evergreen shrub native to South America and grown for its sweet edible fruit.It is known as pepino dulce `sweet cucumber` or simply pepino. The pepino dulce fruit resembles a melon in color, and its flavor recalls a succulent mixture of honeydew and cucumber, and thus it is also sometimes called pepino melon or melon pear. The fruit is common in markets in Colombia, Kenya, Bolivia, Peru and Chile, but less often overseas because it is quite sensitive to handling and does not travel well.