6 Fresh Deep Purple Pepino Melon Cuttings | Unrooted Solanum Muricatum Plants for Home Gardens

Product Overview

Grow your own exotic fruit with these 6 fresh unrooted cuttings of the rare Deep Purple Pepino Melon (Solanum muricatum), also known as Pepino Dulce or Sweet Cucumber. This unique plant produces beautiful oval-shaped fruits with a striking purple-striped skin and a flavor often compared to a blend of melon, cucumber, and pear.

Key Features

• 6 unrooted cuttings of the Deep Purple Pepino Melon variety, freshly cut to order
• Sweet, juicy fruit with a distinctive taste combining melon, cucumber, and pear
• Rare deep purple skin variety that is both ornamental and edible
• Known botanically as Solanum muricatum, commonly called Pepino Dulce or Sweet Cucumber
• Suitable for home gardeners, grows well in pots, greenhouses, and garden beds
• Fast-growing perennial that thrives in warm climates and is frost-sensitive
• Ideal for fresh eating, salads, or as a dessert fruit

Growing Information

The Pepino Melon is a fast-growing shrub that prefers warm climates and is sensitive to frost. It can be successfully grown in containers, greenhouses, or garden settings, making it a versatile choice for home gardeners. These cuttings are shipped with care to ensure the best rooting success, allowing you to cultivate this rare and flavorful fruit plant in your own garden.

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.