A vine seen in Gulangyu Island, with a thumb-sized length and two sharp, ripe red fruits. What is your name, please?

The scientific name is red melon. Edible, eaten many times as a child. The red one is sweeter, and the green one tastes like cucumber.

Red melon (scientific name: Coccinia grandis? (L.) Voigt is a climbing herb of Cucurbitaceae and Cucurbitaceae; Thick roots; The stem is slender, multi-branched, petiole is thin, with longitudinal stripes, wide heart-shaped leaves, blunt apex, several glands at the base, slender tendrils and dioecious plants; Flowers are solitary. Male pedicels thin, glabrous; Calyx tube is bell-shaped, lobes are linear-lanceolate, filaments and anthers are United, anthers are nearly spherical, ovary is spindle-shaped, style is slender, fruit is spindle-shaped, seeds are yellow and rectangular, both sides are densely covered with small warts, and the top is round.

China, Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan. Tropical Africa, Asia and Malaysia are also distributed. It is often found in thickets and forests on hillsides at an altitude of100-100 meters.

This species can be propagated by seeds or cuttings. Most of the Dai people in southern Yunnan, China are planted in courtyards. The area around Taiwan Province Province is used as ornamental plants, or young stems and leaves are picked as vegetables.