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The sole species is E. lobata, commonly called wild cucumber and prickly cucumber. It is an annual, sprawling plant that is native to North America . Sicyos angulatus , common name "bur cucumber", is an annual plant with a similar clinging vine growth but different-appearing flowers and seed pods.
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The cucumber is a creeping vine that roots in the ground and grows up trellises or other supporting frames, wrapping around supports with thin, spiraling tendrils. [7] The plant may also root in a soilless medium, whereby it will sprawl along the ground in lieu of a supporting structure. The vine has large leaves that form a canopy over the fruits.
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.
Between cucumbers stored loose in a resealable bag and those wrapped tightly with plastic wrap, the plastic-wrapped veg outlasted the ones in a resealable bag by twice the amount of time—a full ...
Untreated water used by a Florida cucumber grower is one likely source of salmonella food poisoning that sickened nearly 450 people across the U.S. this spring, federal health officials said Tuesday.
Melothria pendula, also known as the creeping cucumber or the Guadalupe cucumber, is a plant in the Benincaseae tribe. The plant is especially prominent in the Southeastern United States . The plant resembles the cultivated cucumber, possessing miniature yellow flowers, similar leaf shape, same leaf patterns, as well as similar growth patterns.
A cucumber recall under investigation by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has led to over 400 illnesses due to contamination with the bacteria salmonella.