difference between melon and cucumber?

Melon genus is Citrulus and not Cucumis.Cucumber genus is Cucumis. Melons fruits are round in shape while cucumbers are elongated fruits. Melon generally grow horizontal (as fruits are bigger in size as compared to cucumbers). Cucumis can grow verticle with the help of suport.

^ Nope. Mudrul, are you in India? Different melons . Most of what you're probably used to require too long of a growing season for the US. Also probably a matter of different cultures and traditions, even where the season is long enough.

Cucumis melo :http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/nexus/Cucumis_m...

All the cucumis : http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Cucum...

If you mean the differences between C. melo, and C. sativus , melon flowers are solitary , with 3-5 pistils , while cucumber flowers are clustered, and have 4 pistils . Other than that, there's nothing you can point to (except fruit) and say "That's a cucumber." or "That's a melon" . You just have to know .

http://www.agroatlas.spb.ru/cultural/Cucumis_sativ...

ps Amanda, although the origin of the name "pepo*" , = "melon" , Cucurbita pepo includes the following, but not cucumbers or melons :

Acorn squash

Pattypan squash

Some types of Pumpkin

Spaghetti squash

Yellow crookneck squash

Yellow straigtneck squash

Zucchini

Cucurbita: Latin name for "the gourd"

pepo: from Latin "pepo" for a kind of melon and from Greek "pepon" for "ripe"

http://wisplants.uwsp.edu/scripts/detail.asp?SpCod...

Both cucumbers and melons are a type of berry called a pepo. They are very similar.