Melon has high
demand, but most of the Indonesian farmers planted
import seeds of melon which has expensive price. Hence, Indonesia should produce high-quality melon seeds. This
research used three melon cultivars (Cucumis melo L.): ‘Tacapa Green
Black (GB)’, ‘Melona’, and ‘Meloni’ which are the
result of breeding in Genetic and Breeding Laboratory, Faculty of Biology, Gadjah
Mada University. The purpose of this study is to describe fruit morphological characters of these melon
cultivars. ‘Tacapa GB’ is breeding result of Testcross ♀ ‘Act3 434’ X F1 ‘PI 371795’, ‘Melona’
is segregation from ‘Luna’ and ‘Meloni’ is
breeding result of ♀ ‘SL-3’ X ♂ ‘PI 371795’. Seeds of ‘Tacapa GB’, ‘Melona’
and ‘Meloni’ was planted. While
harvest, these
melons were measured, observed, and documented to obtain the quantity and
quality of fruit characters. Data were analyzed and compared each other. The
results showed ‘Tacapa GB’ has weight average of 3.2 kg, brix of 7–9, fruit shape's is oval, fruit color is
yellow-green, and rind color is dark green. ‘Melona' has weight average of 0.8 kg, brix of 7–15, fruit color is orange, having lobes,
and sweet. ‘Meloni' has an oval shape, fruit color is pale yellow, the weight
of 1.1 kg, brix of 8–16 and fragrant.