Cucumis melo var. chate ‘Carosello Scopatizzo Barese’ seeds grow into the Scopatizzo Carosello a traditional south Italian ‘carosello’ melon from the Bari area of Apulia, eaten unripe as a vegetable (not as a sweet fruit), one of the most distinctive traditional melon varieties of southern Italian summer cuisine. Cucumis melo L. var. chate is the chate or vegetable melon group melon types grown for their unripe, cucumber-like fruits rather than for sweet ripe fruit. The ‘Carosello’ tradition is specific to Apulia and southern Italy: an elongated to round, light-green melon harvested when immature and eaten raw in salads or lightly dressed with oil and salt. ‘Scopatizzo’ describes the slightly hairy skin of this variety. Refreshing, watery, mild cucumber-like flavour. Family Cucurbitaceae.
Full sun; fertile, well-drained soils; warm Mediterranean conditions. Sow late spring. Harvest young and green do not allow to ripen fully (loses edible quality). Eat raw as a vegetable salad. Named cultivar may NOT breed true from seed.
‘Scopatizzo’ = slightly hairy skin; ‘Barese’ = from Bari, Apulia; carosello = traditional southern Italian vegetable melon
Chate = vegetable melon group; eaten unripe as cucumber substitute; refreshing mild flavour; raw in salads
Apulian summer tradition; harvest green and young; distinctive hairy skin; not sweetened at full maturity
Genus Cucumis: ~100 species; Old World tropics; Family Cucurbitaceae; Order Cucurbitales
Full sun; fertile soils; warm Mediterranean; harvest young/green; eat raw; named cultivar may not breed true
Cucumis melo var. chate ‘Carosello Scopatizzo Barese’ embodies a uniquely southern Italian summer tradition the carosello melon eaten young and green, long before it sweetens, as a refreshing raw vegetable of the Apulian table, a practice that predates the spread of the cucumber and preserves one of the most distinctive local vegetable traditions of the Italian south.
IMPORTANT: Pictures show the adult plant, which is not for sale. The offer is only for seeds.
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