What does melon spray spread with?

After the melon ripens, the pulpy tissue that grows the seed turns into a sticky liquid, which fills the inside of the fruit and strongly expands and presses the pericarp. At this point, if the fruit is touched, it will break with a bang, ejecting seeds and mucus from 40 to 50 feet.

Morphological characteristics of spray melon

Trailing herbs; roots elongated, stout. Stem rough, shortly setose, ca. 1.5 m long. Petiole slightly stout, 5-15 cm long, like stem, densely pubescent, longitudinally striate; simple leaves alternate, leaf blade ovate-oblong or hastate, margin dentate or undulate, 8-20 cm long, 6-15 cm wide, margin undulate or ±divided, coarsely dentate, above pale green, with rough verrucous spots and white bristles, abaxially gray-white, densely white pubescent, leaf veins raised on leaf back, densely white pubescent Apex slightly obtuse, base curved semicircular, 1-2 cm wide, 0.5-1 cm deep, sometimes subtruncated.

Male flowers in racemes, peduncles slightly stout, densely yellowish brown villous and pubescent, pedicels short, slender, 1-3 cm long, with a small bract at base; calyx lobes lanceolate, 5-6 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, outside densely pilose and shortly setose; Corolla yellow, spreading to 3 cm in diameter, lobes ovate-oblong, apical tip, 3-veined. Stamens filaments 3 mm long, base villous. The fruit is pale green, oblong or ovate-oblong, 4-5 cm long and 1.5-2.5 cm wide, rough, with yellowish-brown short bristles, blunt at both ends, extremely inflated after maturity, a hole from the pedicel behind the base, and the seeds and fruit juice are sprayed out at the same time by the contraction of the pulp. Seeds brown or subblack, ca. 4 mm.

Spray melon mucus is toxic, it is best not to touch its mucus, this mucus is a good material for decorating fences and walls.