[XPOST] Nature's Design in Watermelons

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Hi, I posted this on the PathOfHealth group, but thought maybe someone

here could find it of interest as well : )

 

Hey all,

 

So I cut open a watermelon the other day and sat down to eat it as I

normally do--with half of the small melon and a spoon : ) And I guess

I've noticed this before in small parts, but never saw the whole

picture. Like before I'd noticed around the edges of the edible part,

where it gets whiter, you can see these things that look like cells, I

guess they're suspended water crystals or something. They're

everywhere in a watermelon, just more noticeable in the lighter

colored areas. I always think whatever that is is pretty cool, but

then I noticed something more. An inch or so within the edible

perimeter there's more or less six points that form a sort of circle,

each point is a little spiral, looks kind of like a fingerprint. There

are six of those spirals in the middle, and I noticed too that's where

the seeds are, within those spirals parts that go through the whole

melon And.. I don't know, I just find that really fascinating, that

such a design would come about, you know? Like why are those spirals

around the seeds--is there something special about the seeds? How

exactly does that form..? I don't know, it just seems there's

something greater going on there than I presently can comprehend : )

But I'm certainly in awe of it.. I wonder if the same patterns exist

in seedless watermelon? Can anyone report on that? Or, hopefully I'm

not the only one seeing these patterns in watermelon.. !