Tools/raw materials
Watermelon, fruit knife, round spoon, toothpick
Methods/steps
Take a watermelon, and then cut off the 1/4 of the watermelon with a fruit knife.
On the sliced watermelon surface, take out the small spherical pulp with a round spoon.
Use a knife to draw a V-shape on the blade and cut off the shark's teeth.
Cut off a triangular watermelon skin and fix it next to the watermelon with a toothpick to make shark wings.
Watermelon (scientific name: watermelon (Thunb. )Matsum。 Etnakai)
Annual vines; Stems and branches are stout with obvious edges. Tendrils stout, pubescent, petiole thick and densely pilose; The leaf blade is papery, triangular, oval in outline, white and green in color, with short bristles on both sides and heart-shaped at the base of the leaf blade. Monoecious. Both male and female flowers are solitary in leaf axils. Male pedicels 3-4 cm long, densely yellow-brown villous; Calyx tube wide bell-shaped; Corolla yellowish;
Stamens nearly free, filaments short, anthers folded. Female flowers: calyx and corolla are the same as male flowers; Ovary ovoid, stigma kidney-shaped. The fruit is large, nearly spherical or oval, fleshy, juicy, with smooth skin and various colors and patterns. Seeds are mostly oval, black and red, with smooth sides, obtuse base, usually slightly arched edges, and in summer.
There are many cultivated varieties in China, with different exocarp, pulp and seed shapes, among which Xinjiang, Lanzhou, Gansu, Zhongning, Ningxia, Dezhou, Shandong and Dongtai, Jiangsu are the most famous. Its original species may come from Africa, widely cultivated in tropical to temperate regions of the world, and then introduced to China.
Watermelon is a summer fruit with sweet flesh, which can relieve summer heat. Seeds contain oil and can be used as entertainment food; The pericarp is medicinal, and has the effects of clearing heat, diuresis and lowering blood pressure.