The melon is the fruit and plant of a
typically vine-like (climber and trailer) herb that was first cultivated
more than 4000 years ago (~ 2000 BC) in Persia and Africa. This
flowering plant bears an accessory fruit of a type that botanists call a
false berry. Many different melon cultivars have been produced, perhaps
the most popular or well-known being cantaloupe and honeydew.