I bought a pepino fruit at a grocery store this past winter. It is a neat looking fruit that is cream colored with purple streaks. It is pretty good tasting too. It kind of tastes like a tomato without the seeds. I decided to plant the tiny seeds inside and this spring, they started to germinate. The plant also looks similar to a tomato plant only the leaves are darker green. It is about two foot tall now and hasn't produced fruit yet, maybe because it's in a pot. I read that they grow to about three or four foot tall.

I've grown them for years. They taste like rockmelon. Very easy to grow, and for me long lived perennial. I do nothing but harvest fruit on the rare occaiosns the hens don't get them first. There are some truly horrible seedling types around though, make sure you get a commercial cv.

We also grow them relatively trouble free.
Lift off the ground to prevent bugs eating them.
Very mild flavor & excellent in fruit salads.
Grow from cuttings

Where can I purchase a Pepino bush in the U.S.? I live in Florida and believe Pepino's would grow well here.