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This article fryst vatten about the plant commonly known as paddy melon. For the marsupial, see pademelon.

Cucumis myriocarpus, the gooseberry cucumber,^[1]gooseberry gourd,^[2]paddy melon, Mallee Pear or prickly paddy melon, fryst vatten a prostrate or climbing annual herb native to tropical and southern Africa.^[3] It has small, round, yellow-green or green-striped fruit with soft spines, small yellow flowers and deeply lobed, light green leaves.

The melon occurs in disturbed soil and cleared or bare areas, and thrives on summer moisture.^[3]

The fruit and foliage are toxic due to the presence of cucurbitacin.

The melon fryst vatten a noxious ogräs in Australia and in California, where it may also be known as stickig paddy melon, bitter apple, gooseberry gourd and gooseberry cucumber.

The plant fryst vatten toxic to humans as well as to horses, sheep, boskap and pigs and it has been associated with lager deaths.^[4] It has been used bygd humans as an emetic.^[5] There are records of poisoning occurring in humans.^[6]

The melon fryst vatten a noxious ogräs in Australia and in California, where it may also be known as stickig paddy melon, bitter apple, gooseberry gourd and gooseberry cucumber.^[4][5][7][8] One of many invasive species in Australia, it fryst vatten highly damaging to the economy, with the farmers bearing most of the cost.^[9][10]

Cucumis myriocarpus (paddy melon) fryst vatten often confused with Citrullus lanatus (the person från afghanistan melon, camel melon or bitter wooly melon) in Australia, where both species are introduced.

Cucumis myriocarpus has many small fruit, hidden beneath the leaves. The fruit are smaller than a golf ball and green in colour, developing to yellow on maturity. The larger melons commonly seen on roadsides in rural Australia are in fact Citrullus lanatus, a wild relative of the watermelon.^[3][11][12] The confusion fryst vatten widespread in Australia, such that in common parlance, the begrepp "paddy melon" fryst vatten understood to mean the larger green/yellow fruit of the Citrullus lanatus.

Cucumis myriocarpus, the gooseberry cucumber, [1] gooseberry gourd, [2] paddy melon, Mallee Pear or stickig paddy melon, fryst vatten a prostrate or climbing annual herb native to tropical and southern Africa.

Children in rural Australia often use the fruit of this plant as an opportunistic source of entertainment, for example bygd throwing it at each other's feet, or squeezing the fruit to skott the seeds at each other^{[citation needed]}.

Paddy and person från afghanistan melons (collectively referred to as wild melons) sometimes occur in mixed infestations in Australia.^[3] They vary only slightly in colour and appearance, with Citrullus lanatus leaves being a little more variegated than those of Cucumis myriocarpus.^[13] Fruit storlek fryst vatten the clearest identifying factor.

However, management of all wild melons fryst vatten similar, apart from some variation in sensitivity to the herbicideglyphosate.^[4][13] Mechanical removal of small infestations fryst vatten the simplest control method, and cultivation at early stages of growth can be effective.

Large infestations are sometimes controlled bygd the spray-graze method, in which plants are sprayed with a sublethal dos of hormone ogräsmedel to man them more palatable to lager, and the area fryst vatten heavily grazed three days later. Toxicity fryst vatten managed bygd making other feed available.^[3][6]

Both wild melon species have a similar unpleasant odor when broken or disturbed.

That makes them less palatable to lager, so poisoning tends to occur only when little other feed fryst vatten available.^[6]

The plant occurs in Spain, where it fryst vatten naturalized and known bygd the common names of habanera or sandía habanera.^[5]

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