Plant description: Watermelon is a slender, sprawling, slightly hairy, vining, generally monoecious annual made up of individual stems (runners) that generally grow to lengths of 3.5 tol5 ft (-1.1 to 4.6 m). The species requires a fairly long growingseason that provides high temperatures. Depending on the cultivar, the deeply lobed leaves vary from 1 to 6 inches (~2.5 to 15.2 cm) in width and from 2 to 10 inches (~5 to 25.4 cm) in length.
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