香瓜茄，是原产南美洲安第斯山的一种水果。香瓜茄属于茄科的多年生草本植物。

在中国，甘肃**地区等地引进栽种。近年来依据神话中的人参果改名。

**，则以台南市左镇区（新化区、山上区附近）、澎湖、桃园拉拉山及南投清境等处有栽种，春分时节，盛产。

This page is about the Solanum muricatum described by William Aiton. S. furcatum was also called thus by Bertero based on Dunal.

"Pepino" redirects here; similar plants are also known by that name (see text). For the municipality in Toledo, see Pepino, Spain.

Solanum muricatum is a species of evergreen shrub native to South America and grown for its sweet edible fruit.

It is known as pepino dulce ("sweet cucumber" in English, in order to differentiate it from cucumber which is also called "pepino" in Spanish) or simply pepino; the latter is also used for similar species such as "S. mucronatum" (which actually seems to belong in the related genus Lycianthes). The pepino dulce fruit resembles a melon (Cucumis melo) in color, and its flavor recalls a succulent mixture of honeydew and cucumber, and thus it is also sometimes called pepino melon or melon pear, but pepinos are only very distantly related to melons and pears. Another common name, "tree melon", is more often used for the Papaya (Carica papaya) though the pepino dulce plant generally does not look much like a tree; it looks more like a ground cover, trailing plant. The present species is, however, a close relative of other nightshades cultivated for their fruit, including the tomato (S. lycopersicum) and the eggplant (S. melongena), which its own fruit closely resembles.