菜瓜Cucumis melo Linn. var. conomon (Thunb.) Makino

别名：梢瓜;白瓜;越瓜;脆瓜;花瓜;老洋瓜;稍瓜;少瓜;生瓜;甜瓜;甜瓜梢瓜变种;羊角瓜;

科名：葫芦科 Cucurbitaceae

属名：黄瓜属 Cucumis

《中国植物志》第73(1)卷203页
  1b. 菜瓜（变种）越瓜（本草经集注），稍瓜（饮膳正要），白瓜（本草求原），生瓜（本经逢原）图版52：10
  var. conomon (Thunb.) Makino in Bot. Mag. Tokyo 16: 16. 1902; 侯宽昭等, 广州植物志 190. 1956; 陈焕镛等, 海南植物志 1: 476. 1964; 中国高等植物图鉴4: 362, 图6137. 1975. ——C. conomon Thunb., Fl. Jap. 362. 1784. ——C. melo Linn. var. conomon f. albus Makino in Bot. Mag. Tokyo 20: 81. 1904.
  果实长圆状圆柱形或近棒状，长20-30 (-50) 厘米，径6-10 (-15) 厘米，上部比下部略粗，两端圆或稍呈截形，平滑无毛，淡绿色，有纵线条，果肉白色或淡绿色，无香甜味。花果期夏季。
  我国南北普遍栽培。
  果实为夏季的蔬菜，并多酱渍作酱瓜。

《Flora of China》 Vol. 19 (2011)
Cucumis melo subsp. agrestis  (Naudin) Pangalo in Zhukovskii Zemledel’ch. Turtsiya. 534. 1933.
菜瓜   cai gua
Cucumis melo var. agrestis Naudin, Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 4, 11: 73. 1859; Bryonia callosa Rottler; C. acidus Jacquin; C. callosus (Rottler) Cogniaux & Harms.
Ovary and young fruit sericeous with short appressed hairs; fruit in cultivated forms mostly not fragrant and not sweet.
Farmlands, roadsides. C and E China; commonly cultivated in China [throughout Old World tropics; introduced in New World tropics; also commonly cultivated in E and SE Asia, rarely cultivated elsewhere].
The fruit is used as a vegetable (菜瓜 cai gua).The fruit is used as a vegetable (菜瓜 cai gua).