"cucumis anguria" has become naturalized in: anguilla; antigua and barbuda; australia (queensland and western australia); barbados; brazil; cayman islands; costa rica; cuba; the dominican republic; ecuador; french guiana; grenada; guadeloupe; guatemala; haiti; honduras; jamaica; madagascar; martinique; mexico; netherlands antilles; nicaragua; panama; peru; puerto rico; saint lucia; saint vincent and grenadines; suriname; the united states (california, florida, georgia, massachusetts, montana, new york, oregon, texas, minnesota, wisconsin and washington); venezuela; and both british and american virgin islands.