| Assol | Russia | Yellow with creamy-gray stripes | Originated at West-Siberian Vegetable Experiment station. | Mid season | Oval-round shape, segmental fruit, rind is thin, flexible, yellow in cut. Flesh is light-green, medium thick grainy, tender, juicy, sweet, with a strong aroma. |
| Basarabia | Russia | Orange with greenish spots | Originated in Pridnestrov Research Institute of Agriculture. | Early season | Rounded-flattened shape. Surface is smooth, with gray-green straps, with netting elements at the stalk. Flesh is creamy, thick and medium, grainy, juicy, sweet with a pleasant vanilla aroma. |
| Bitter | Africa or India | Pale greenish-yellow turning to yellow or orange as it ripens. | Origin is unknown. | May to September. | Ridged knobby stripy and smooth warts, rough skin, oblong shaped. Flesh is pinkish-orange with seeds and slightly bitter taste. |
| Blondie | Russia | Gray-green | Selection of Gavrish variety. | Mid season | Mass – 400-600g, flattened. Surface is segmental, without netting, rind is thin. Flesh is bright-orange, melting with high and stable sugar content and carotene. |
| Bronzovka (Bronze) | Ukraine | Greenish-bronze with thin rough netting. | Originated by Biryuchekutskaya Experiment Station. | Late-ripening | Oval, large. Flesh is thick, white, crisp, very sweet. |
| Canary | Spain | Bright yellow | Named for Canary Islands. | Autumn | Oval and smooth. When ripe, its hard rind develops a crumpled look and a slightly waxy coat. Flesh is crisp and firm, very pale green to creamy, juicy, with a light pinkish-orange seed cavity. Delicately, fruity flavored, with a succulent refreshing taste. |
| Cantaloupe (musk melon) | Italy | Thick netting on a slightly golden background. | It was named after the commune Cantalupo in Sabina, a summer residence of the Pope. Originally cultivated around 1700. | Available year round | Flesh is pale orange very juicy, tasty and sweet. |
| Cantaloupe French Kiss | France | Sea foam green | Originated in Charentais region, France. | Available year round | Rather small sized with a small tight seed cavity. Rind is thin. Very sweet. A lovely shade of orange. Flesh is succulent, juicy and creamy. Resembles a cross between a Tuscan cantaloupe and a regular cantaloupe, with a much less evident striping than the typical Tuscan variety. |
| Casaba | Turkey | Golden yellow with a green tint | Origin:
1885–90, named after Kassaba, a town near Izmir, Turkey. | April to late September | Round, often pumpkin-shaped with a slight point at the stem end. Rind is very thick with irregular shallow furrows running from edge to edge. Flesh is creamy-green, juicy, delicately sweet, with a mild cucumber-like flavor. |
| Cavaillon | France | Lime green when ripe | Originated from Cavaillon, hence is the name. | June to October | High sugar content. Turns yellow and its furrows disappear when overripens. |
| Charentais (=Charantais) | France | White-yellow or green-yellow with some dark stripes, turns to warmer yellow and gray cast disappears as it fully ripens. | Originated in France around 16th century. | Late June through August | The smallest among melons, however the most delicious. Globe-shaped. Rind is mastoid, smooth or slightly netted, with smooth longitudinal furrows. Flesh is pale to bright or deep orange, firm, juicy. Intense sweet and aromatic flavor. |
| Crenshaw (=Cranshaw) | Africa or from somewhere in Asia Minor | Golden yellow | A hybrid between the casaba and Persian melon. Exact origin unknown. | May to August. | Oblong. Rind is pointed, very wrinkled and crumpled with a slight waxy coat. Flesh is dense, tender, aromatic, salmon-orange, rather sweet and spicy. |
| Galia | Izrael | Pale thick crust golden rind develops brownish-yellow color as it ripens. | A hybrid of Cantaloupe and Honeydew. Originated by Zvi Karchi in 1970. | From May to September | Deep-green, sweet and aromatic flesh, with a cantaloupe flavor. |
| Hami-Gua | China | Greenish | Cultivated in China for more than 700 years, hybrid variety of Shin-Kiang Hami melon. | Mid-May to July and from September to December. | Oblong-shaped with crispy and sweet flesh. Uniform in size and shape. |
| Honeydew | Asian country | Yellowish | Exact origin unknown, believed to come from Asia | August, September and October. | Skin is smooth. Flesh is tender sweet pale green. Round to oval and somewhat larger than a cantaloupe. As the melon ripens, its skin transforms from very hard and smooth to velvety texture and sticky. |
| Horn | Africa | Bright golden yellow to orange color | Originated in southwest Africa. | Beginning in March or April. | Flesh is rich, jellylike, lime-green with white seeds. Sweetly tart flavor. |
| Kiwano (Horned melon) | Africa | Bright yellow | This one is a member of the cucumber family. | Available all year round. | Small fruit. Flesh is jelly-like, olive green, sweet and sour with edible seeds similar to those of a cucumber in the shell with stubby horns. |
| Kolhoznitsa 749-753 | Ukraine | Orange-yellow. Some fruit have non-uniform, barely visible netting. | The variety was improved by Biryuchekutskaya Experiment Station and passed to production in 1993. | Mid-ripening | Small, spherical fruit. Flesh is white, sweet and tasty. |
| Korean | Korea | Yellow | | January | Oval-shaped. Flesh is white with a rather large seed cavity in the center. Juicy with a firm texture, fine-grained. |
| Krymka № 11 | Ukraine | Orange. Some fruits have green spots. | Originate by Simferopol Vegetable Potato Experiment Station from a mixture using individual selection method. | Ripen in September. | Large, spherical, slightly segmental fruits. Netting is rough and thick. Flesh is orange with a greenish interlayer at the rind, sweet. |
| Luna (Moon) | Russia | Yellow | Originated at West-Siberian Vegetable Experiment Station. | Mid-early season | Up to 1kg. Oval, smooth, with solid tender netting. Flesh is creamy, poorly juicy, low sugar with aroma. 3 cm in width. Good taste. |
| Ogen | Izrael | Pale green to yellowish striped with green or orange lines that turn to golden as it ripens. | Originated in Israeli kibbutz Ogen. | Late June | Smooth skin. Mass – 800-100g, segmental, without netting. Flesh is greenish-white, juicy, sweet, aromatic, with melting consistency. |
| Pepino | Chile and Peru | Ivory to light green streaked with purple or pinkish- lilac markings, turning gold and orange as it ripens. | Also called tree melon, bush melon and mellow-fruit. | From February into May. | Smooth glossy edible skin and edible soft seeds. Size varies from small to large as an oversized papaya. Flesh is tender, yellowish-gold, fine-grained and sweetly aromatic, intensifying as it ripens. |
| Persian | Persia, now Iran | Light grayish-green background turns to a light tan color as it ripens. | It is a type of musk melon. | April to September | Larger and rounder, sometimes oval-shaped, very close cousin of the cantaloupe, with finer, more delicate netting. Flesh is pinkish-orange sweet, firmer texture the cantaloupe’s and buttery. |
| Pridnestrovskaya | Russia | Yellow | Originated in Pridnestrov Research Institute of Agriculture. | Early season | Rounded-flattened. Surface is smooth, with netting. Flesh is whitish-green, thick and medium, crisp, juicy, sweet with melon aroma. |
| Zoloto Skifov (Scythian Gold) | Russia | Yellow | A hybrid of selection Gavrish. | Mid-early season | Not large fruit, mass-120-150g, with netting. Flesh is yellow, juicy and aromatic. |
