Pepino, that of fruit and how to grow in the country.

Pepino - the name of a small, fruit, constantly green woody shrub. He is from the family Solanaceae, and reaches a height of just one and a half meters. By the way, the people can be heard, "mango cucumber" or "melon pear", all names bush. For example, melon pear it is called more often, because the taste of the fruits like cantaloupe, but the shape like a pear.

I do not have any exact description of the plant, since all varieties with each other are very different. Such bushes can grow in the greenhouse and housing conditions as possible and as an ornamental plant.

Many varieties have not yet spread in our latitudes, so many gardeners do not even know what it looks like and what it represents pepino. Despite this, every year its popularity climbs.

Homeland bush - South America. In our time, pepino often can be found in Peru, New Zealand and Chile.

Fruits like bush to several different cultures, for example, stem like a stalk of eggplant, pepper leaves resemble the leaves and flowers is like a potato buds. Berries may also be different, and round and oblong and pear-shaped, and flattened. When the fruits ripen, they acquire or cream, or lemon shade, and some varieties can be seen purple stripes or speckles. Flesh is a colorless or pale yellow, the taste - sweet and sour, as mentioned earlier, recalls the taste of melon. fruit weight varies from two hundred to seven hundred and fifty grams.

The plant can withstand winter temperatures, especially when the thermometer shows thirty degrees below zero. It is best to grow these shrubs in the home, the best on a private balcony, window ledge, terrace or in the greenhouse. Of course, where the climate is mild and the temperature jumps are not so sharp, you can try to grow the plant in the open field. However, a special microclimate is still needed, because the bush just vymerznet harsh winters and warm summers will fall off the flowers, and then fruit will not.

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