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  2. List of crop plants pollinated by bees - Wikipedia

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    Cucumber: Cucumis sativus: Honey bees, squash bees, bumblebees, leafcutter bee (in greenhouse pollination), solitary bees (for some parthenocarpic gynoecious green house varieties pollination is detrimental to fruit quality) fruit 3-great 1-2 temperate Squash, pumpkin, gourd, marrow, zucchini: Cucurbita spp. Honey bees, squash bees, bumblebees ...

  3. Parthenocarpy - Wikipedia

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    Seedless cucumbers are an example of vegetative parthenocarpy, seedless watermelon is an example of stenospermocarpy as they are immature seeds (aborted ones). Plants that moved from one area of the world to another may not always be accompanied by their pollinating partner, and the lack of pollinators has spurred human cultivation of ...

  4. List of cucumber varieties - Wikipedia

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    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

  5. Cucumber - Wikipedia

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    Although any cucumber can be pickled, commercial pickles are made from cucumbers specially bred for uniformity of length-to-diameter ratio and lack of voids in the flesh. Those cucumbers intended for pickling, called picklers, grow to about 7 to 10 cm (3 to 4 in) long and 2.5 cm (1 in) wide. Compared to slicers, picklers tend to be shorter ...

  6. Sicyos angulatus - Wikipedia

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    Sicyos angulatus, [1] the oneseed bur cucumber [2] or star-cucumber is an annual vine in the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae, native to eastern North America. The plant forms mats or climbs using tendrils. The leaves are palmately veined and lobed, the flowers are green to yellowish green, and the fruits form clusters of very small pepos.

  7. A Florida company’s recalled cucumbers might be linked to a ...

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    Whole cucumbers from a Delray Beach company have been recalled and are being investigated for a possible link to a current salmonella outbreak with 141 illnesses.

  8. Spreewald gherkins - Wikipedia

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    Among these products, the cucumbers are at the top. In a previous year, a single merchant sold 800 Schock [48,000] per week. That would mean nothing in Hamburg or Liverpool, where one is used to reckoning by loads and tons, but every 'place has its measure', which amounts to a good reputation, considering these 800 Schock .

  9. Plant reproductive morphology - Wikipedia

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    Close-up of a Schlumbergera flower, showing part of the gynoecium (specifically the stigma and part of the style) and the stamens that surround it. Plant reproductive morphology is the study of the physical form and structure (the morphology) of those parts of plants directly or indirectly concerned with sexual reproduction.