Crane

Inodorous melon. Pyriform fruit with a smooth rind and light netting. Fruit turns yellow with orange spotting at maturity. Pale orange flesh. Market mature fruit measure 6-8.2" long, 4.5-6" in diameter, and weigh up to 4 lbs. Prostrate growth habit. Average rind and flesh thickness. Plants were infected with anthracnose and low yielding in 2014 and 2015 growout at Heritage Farm. Introduced in the 1920s by Oliver Crane whose family has farmed for six generations near Santa Rosa, California. SSE Accession # 112929