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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.
The family Cucurbitaceae ranks among the highest of plant families for number and percentage of species used as human food. [5] The name Cucurbitaceae comes to international scientific vocabulary from Neo-Latin , from Cucurbita , the type genus , + -aceae , [ 6 ] a standardized suffix for plant family names in modern taxonomy.
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).
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
Cucurbitella asperata is a species of flowering plant in the cucumber family, Cucurbitaceae.It is the sole species in genus Cucurbitella. [1] It is a climbing tuberous geophyte native to southern tropical South America, ranging from Bolivia to west-central and southern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and northern Argentina.
Trichosanthes is a genus of tropical and subtropical vines.They belong to the cucumber family (Cucurbitaceae), and are closely related to Gymnopetalum. Hodgsonia, formerly included here, is usually considered a well-distinct genus nowadays.
The only species is Dendrosicyos socotranus, the cucumber tree. The species is endemic to the island of Socotra in Yemen , and is the only species in the Cucurbitaceae to grow in a tree form. The species name was originally spelled D. socotrana , [ 2 ] but this is corrected to masculine grammatical gender according to the International Code of ...
Trichosanthes kirilowii is a flowering plant in the family Cucurbitaceae found particularly in Henan, Shandong, Hebei, Shanxi, and Shaanxi . It is one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine, where it shares the name guālóu (Chinese: 栝 蔞) with the related T. rosthornii. It is known as "Chinese cucumber" and ...