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cantalupo

cantaloupe

Italy may have been the first European home of this globetrotting musk melon, specifically the former papal seat of Cantalupo in Sabina near Rome, where it is first mentioned in documents from the Middle Ages, and hence its name.

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Text © Dana Facaros & Michael Pauls

Image by Scott Bauer, USDA Crataive COmmons License