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One Unique Watermelon Variety Mimics A Sky Full Of Stars By Paige Hughes Oct. 18, 2025 8:00 am EST

A lot of foods are Instagrammable and aesthetically-pleasing, but few compare to one watermelon variety: the Moon and Stars watermelon. Moon and Stars watermelons are appropriately named after their galactic appearance – they have dark green skin with numerous yellow spots. While one will not encounter this variety in the wild, the commercially- or home-grown watermelon has become one of the United States' favorite heirloom varieties – perhaps due in part to its history.

A Colorado gardener sold the rights to the speckled watermelon to Peter Henderson & Co., a New York City-based seed and plant company, in the 1920s. By the 1970s, despite the fruit's popularity, i

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