Kiwano : The kiwano is an ovoid cucumber, yellow marbled with green (family of Cucurbits — Botanical name: Cucumis melanogaster). It is a strange-looking fruit, about ten centimeters long, ovoid, and covered with pointed horns. It has a translucent and very juicy green pulp containing many seeds. The kiwano is the fruit of a vine) is a plant that has many names: horned melon, African horned melon, metulon, metuliferous cucumber, Kenyan cucumber, ... and more recently under the name of kiwano, a trade name from New Zealand. The kiwano is an annual climbing plant, native to southern and central Africa. It is a plant that is grown for its ornamental and edible fruits. It is a plant particularly cultivated in the United States, in Israel, in Kenya, in New Zealand. It is also grown in Portugal.
It is sometimes called "sputnik" (one of the first Soviet satellites) because of its spiked epidermis.
the kiwano is generally eaten fresh in a salad or in juice and comes with ice cream and sorbets.