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The male flower has a single central stamen with a yellow anther. The female flower has a single stigma and is borne on a short stalk at the base of the flower panicle, with the spiky globular inferior ovary being immediately beneath. [3] The fruit is a prickly, inflated capsule up to 5 cm (2 in) long with two pores and four seeds. [2] It ...
This caudex is a store of water, which enables the plant to be somewhat resistant to droughts. [4] [6] It develops long climbing stems that reach between 1 – 6m in length. Its lobed leaves are between 6 – 10 cm long. [4] Baboon's cucumbers form short racemes consisting of 1–12 male flowers. Their petals are light cream to green-yellow ...
Many species have large, yellow or white flowers. The stems are hairy and pentangular. Tendrils are present at 90° to the leaf petioles at nodes. Leaves are exstipulate, alternate, simple palmately lobed or palmately compound. The flowers are unisexual, with male and female flowers on different plants or on the same plant .
The cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is a widely-cultivated creeping vine plant in the family Cucurbitaceae that bears cylindrical to spherical fruits, which are used as culinary vegetables. [1] Considered an annual plant, [ 2 ] there are three main types of cucumber—slicing, pickling , and seedless —within which several cultivars have been created.
Austrobryonia micrantha, [1] commonly known as desert cucumber or mallee cucumber, [2] [3] is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae, [4] [5] native to inland Australia. [6] [3] Austrobryonia micrantha is a perennial that grows back every year from its thick root, even after the stems wither. The plant typically ...
Similar to some types of cucumber, [10] these plants are monoecious, producing both male and female flowers on the same plant. [9] [11] Flowers are small and yellow, and are approximately 4 mm (0.2 in) in diameter. [5] Unusually for the cucurbits, the female flowers appear before the male flowers. [6] These plants can pollinate themselves, but ...
Three kinds of cucumbers: Sikkim, Armenian, and lemon. This is a list of varieties or cultivars of cucumber, a widely cultivated vine in the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae. The cucumber vine bears edible fruit. A lemon cucumber
Cucumis is a genus of twining, tendril-bearing plants in the family Cucurbitaceae which includes the cucumber (Cucumis sativus), true melons (Cucumis melo, including cantaloupe and honeydew), the horned melon (Cucumis metuliferus), and the West Indian gherkin (Cucumis anguria).