edible, but it is used as often for decoration as for food. When ripe, it has a yellow-orange skin and a lime green, jelly-like flesh with a tart taste, and texture similar cucumber. In Zimbabwe, this cucumber is called gaka, and it is primarily used as a fruit- snack, salad, and rarely for decoration, It is eaten young, mature green, or when ripe bright yellow/orange. It grows naturally in the fields and also in the bush. However, some people leave some to rot in the fields for the next summer's seeds/plants. As traditional food plant in Africa, this fruit is potential to improve nutrition, boost food security, foster rural development and support sustainable land care. Along with the Gemsbok cucumber, it is the only source of water during the dry the Kalahari Desert. Despite the fruit's colorful appearance, it is not found any significant uses in Western cuisine and been called "astringent", and the price is "exorbitant" How do people in Zimbabwe get the next summer's seeds of the horned melon?

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edible, but it is used as often for decoration as for food. When ripe, it has a yellow-orange skin and a lime green, jelly-like flesh with a tart taste, and texture similar cucumber.

In Zimbabwe, this cucumber is called gaka, and it is primarily used as a fruit- snack, salad, and rarely for decoration, It is eaten young, mature green, or when ripe bright yellow/orange. It grows naturally in the fields and also in the bush. However, some people leave some to rot in the fields for the next summer's seeds/plants.

As traditional food plant in Africa, this fruit is potential to improve nutrition, boost food security, foster rural development and support sustainable land care. Along with the Gemsbok cucumber, it is the only source of water during the dry the Kalahari Desert. Despite the fruit's colorful appearance, it is not found any significant uses in Western cuisine and been called "astringent", and the price is "exorbitant"

How do people in Zimbabwe get the next summer's seeds of the horned melon?

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