Today, almost 3, 2 thousand. Dollars (300 thousand. Yen) in Japan have sold high-end varieties of watermelon "denske."
The owner of the watermelon was the 33-year-old resident of the city of Asahikawa on the northern island of Hokkaido. A man holding a chain of stores where it is going to resell the watermelon for a higher price.
"Denske" famous for his dark skin and a distinctive taste. Watermelons in this class in a special sweet and have a certain mellowness. Grow them near the town of Tom on the skeleton of Hokkaido, and then carried about throughout the country. For 2013 it is planned to sell about 70 thousand varieties of watermelons "denske." The average cost will be about $ 50 apiece.
All Japanese are very fond of melons, so do not mind the different experiments. Some people even give them a non-standard form, for example in the form of a pyramid or a cube.
In 2005, on the island of Kyushu, it had grown the heaviest watermelon for the whole century. Its weight was 111 kg. To beat the previous record set in 1990 in the United States, he lacked only 7 to 8 kg.
In addition to watermelons, melons partial to Japanese. In May, on the same island of Hokkaido, went under the hammer two elite varieties of melon "Yubari". The melons were sold for 16 thousand dollars.
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