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Young Dark Blonde Girl Shows Off In The Studio With A Watermelon
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Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.), family Cucurbitaceae) can be both the fruit and the plant a vine-like (scrambler and trailer) plant originally from southern Africa, and is one the most common types melon. This flowering plant produces a special type fruit known by botanists as a pepo, a berry which has a thick rind (exocarp) and fleshy center (mesocarp and endocarp); pepos are derived from an inferior ovary, and are characteristic the Cucurbitaceae. The watermelon fruit, loosely considered a type melon (although not in the genus Cucumis), has a smooth exterior rind (green, yellow and sometimes white) and a juicy, sweet interior flesh (usually pink, but sometimes orange, yellow, red and sometimes green if not ripe).
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