The Korean melon, or chamoe (참외), is a small, slender, golden-yellow melon — the fruit of the trailing gourd vine Cucumis melo var. makuwa, an East Asian "oriental melon" of the Inodorus/Conomon lineage. Marked by ten or so white longitudinal ribs running down its bright-yellow rind, it has crisp, pale, lightly sweet white flesh and unusually soft, edible seeds, and is eaten whole and chilled across Korea, Japan and China as a thin-skinned summer fruit.