What is the difference between honey-dew melon and musk melon?!
Answers: What about yams and sweet potatoes?
Muskmelon, also known as cantaloupe, is a tender, heat-loving vegetable. Most varieties of the muskmelon have a musk smell; thus the name muskmelon. Muskmelon originated in India and were cultivated by settlers in the 1600's.
Honeydew has a round to slightly oval shape, typically 15-22 cm long. It generally ranges in weight from 1.8 to 3.6 kg. The flesh of a honeydew is pale green in color, while the smooth peel ranges from greenish to yellow. Like most fruit, honeydew has seeds. Honeydew's thick, juicy, sweet flesh is often eaten for dessert, and is commonly found in supermarkets across the world. This fruit grows best in semiarid climates and is harvested based on maturity, not size. Maturity can be hard to judge, but is based upon ground color ranging from greenish white (immature) to creamy yellow (mature)[1]. Quality is also determined by the honeydew having a nearly spherical shape with a surface free of scars or defects. Also, a honeydew should feel heavy for its size and have a waxy (not fuzzy) surface.
Although yams and sweet potatoes are both angiosperms (flowering plants), they are not related botanically. Yams are a monocot (a plant having one embryonic seed leaf) and from the Dioscoreaceae or Yam family. Sweet Potatoes, often called ‘yams’, are a dicot (a plant having two embryonic seed leaves) and are from the Convolvulacea or morning glory family.
Yams
Yams are closely related to lilies and grasses. Native to Africa and Asia, yams vary in size from that of a small potato to a record 130 pounds (as of 1999). There are over 600 varieties of yams and 95% of these crops are grown in Africa. Compared to sweet potatoes, yams are starchier and drier.
Sweet Potatoes
The many varieties of sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) are members of the morning glory family, Convolvulacea. The skin color can range from white to yellow, red, purple or brown. The flesh also ranges in color from white to yellow, orange, or orange-red. Sweet potato varieties are classified as either ‘firm’ or ‘soft’. When cooked, those in the ‘firm’ category remain firm, while ‘soft’ varieties become soft and moist. It is the ‘soft’ varieties that are often labeled as yams in the United States.
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honey dew is the green fleshed melon, musk melon aka catalope, orange flesh.
Yams and sweet potatoes are not the same thing. Sweet potatoes derive from the morning glory family and are the root of the plant. Sweet potatoes are distantly related to potatoes and even more distantly related to yams, which are the root of a plant commonly found in Asia, Latin America and Africa. In the US, sweet potatoes are commonly called yams, which is incorrect.
Muskmelon and honeydew are of the same species, but are different subspecies. Many people refer to muskmelons as canaloupes, but actually most melons are generally muskmelons because they are in the same species. Cantaloupe is a muskmelon with reticulated skin (those bumps on the outside)
I think melons are gross. One is green the other is yellow.
Also sweet potatoes and yams are the same!
It is basicly they are the same fruit or Vegetable. just diffrent areas have diffrent names for things.