We still have white fleshed watermelons and all today. In the process of improving watermelon strains, different regions might have had different varieties deve

We still have white fleshed watermelons and all today. In the process of improving watermelon strains, different regions might have had different varieties developed, and the part red one was eventually bred into a full red one or abandoned. The part white one the particle is about isn't the "original" watermelon either. The original wild plant that was domesticated can still be found happily growing in Africa. Those look far far less like watermelons we know than what's in either of those paintings