Besides watermelon

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All four melons lived in harmony, then everything changed when the fire melon attacked

When I learnt the alphabet song as a kid I always used to think it went H I J K elemelon P

I feel like earthmellon would just be a coconut. I'm excited for windmelon and firemellon, though.

Dragonfruit? Or are we going capsaicin

I was thinking that it's about composition (watermelon is mostly water), so probably more capsaicin. Hot like a pepper but big and round. And maybe some orangish bioluminescence too, since it's a made-up fruit and I'm allowed some creative licence.

Windmelon would then be very light and spongy.

I wonder if a fruit like that could ever be GMO'ed.

I see no fundamental reason why not. The barriers are mostly cultural and in understanding details of biology when it comes to GMOs.

"Elemelons". Now that is a new favorite high word, next to banana. Banananananananananana.....