Bateekh Samara Melon

95 days. Unique, sweet, citrus-like taste! Oblong fruit is brownish-green and netted outside, lime green within.  The name simply means “old melon from Samarra,” which is a city in northern Iraq. This variety is known to have been grown in the Abbasid Period over one thousand years ago! Endangered due to war and America’s aggressive promotion of patented seeds in Iraq.