To see where it fell in the watermelon family tree, the researchers behind the current paper sequenced the genomes of seven Citrullus species. They found that the Kordofan melon had much more ...

But recently a familiar fruit found its way into an unfamiliar place: a watermelon in a tree. “I said ‘What’s that?’ And it’s a big watermelon and I didn’t believe it myself," said Thayer.