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The cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is ... A few cultivars of cucumber are parthenocarpic, ... Newer gynoecious hybrid cultivars produce almost all female blossoms.
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 ...
The oldest known cultivated plant is a parthenocarpic fig that was first grown at least 11,200 years ago. [7] In some climates, normally-seeded pear cultivars produce mainly seedless fruit for lack of pollination. [8] When sprayed on flowers, any of the plant hormones gibberellin, auxin and cytokinin could stimulate the development of ...
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
Unlike (most) animals, plants grow new organs after embryogenesis, including new roots, leaves, and flowers. [3] In the flowering plants, the gynoecium develops in the central region of the flower as a carpel or in groups of fused carpels. [4]
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).
Cucumis – cucumber (C. sativus); various melons and vines. Momordica – bitter melon. Luffa – commonly called 'luffa' or ‘luffa squash'; sometimes spelled loofah. Young fruits may be cooked; when fully ripened, they become fibrous and unpalatable, thus becoming the source of the loofah scrubbing sponge. Cyclanthera – Caigua.
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.