Pepino

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Name Variations

 * pepino melon
 * mellowfruit
 * treemelon
 * melon pear
 * sweet cucumber
 * melon shrub
 * pear melon
 * pepino dulce

About Pepino
The pepino dulce fruit resembles a melon (Cucumis melo) in color and flavor and thus it is also called pepino melon or melon pear, but pepinos are only distantly related to melons and pears. Another common name, "tree melon", is more often used for the Papaya (Carica papaya) and the pepino dulce plant does generally not look much like a tree.