 The larger melons commonly seen on roadsides in rural Australia are in fact "Citrullus lanatus", a wild relative of the watermelon.The confusion is widespread in Australia, such that in common parlance, the term "paddy melon" is understood to mean the larger green/yellow fruit of the "Citrullus lanatus".Children in rural Australia often use the fruit of this plant as an opportunistic source of entertainment, for example by throwing it at each other's feet, or squeezing the fruit to shoot the seeds at each other.