Cantaloupe is an orange-fleshed muskmelon, the sweet, musky, juicy fruit of the trailing gourd vine Cucumis melo. In North America the name is given to the round, tan, net-skinned melon (the "netted melon," var. reticulatus), while the true European cantaloupe (var. cantalupensis) wears a ribbed, warty, often greyish rind; both have soft, perfumed salmon-to-orange flesh and a hollow seed cavity, and are eaten chilled in wedges, balled into fruit salad, blended into juice, or — most famously — draped with thin slices of prosciutto.