Honeydew is a sweet, smooth-skinned winter melon, the creamy-rinded fruit of the trailing gourd vine Cucumis melo (Inodorus group). It is milder, sweeter and far less musky than its netted cousin cantaloupe — pale, juicy and clean-tasting — and is eaten chilled in wedges, balled into fruit salad, blended into agua fresca, and, most famously, draped in thin slices of cured ham.