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Cucumis sativus (garden cucumber)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is a widely cultivated plant in the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae. It is a creeping vine that bears cucumiform fruits that are used as vegetables. There are three main varieties of cucumber: slicing, pickling, and seedless. Within these varieties, several cultivars have been created. In North America, the term "wild cucumber" refers to plants in the genera Echinocystis and Marah, but these are not closely related. The cucumber is originally from South Asia, but now grows on most continents. Many different types of cucumber are traded on the global market.
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Infraspecies

Cucumis sativus var. hardwickii
Cucumis sativus var. sativus
Cucumis sativus var. sikkimensis
Cucumis sativus var. xishuangbannanensis

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Monoecious
Hazards [1]  The sprouting seed produces a toxic substance in its embryo;
Lifespan [1]  Annual
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Structure [1]  Vine
Usage [1]  Cucumber skins have been shown to repel cockroaches in laboratory experiments; The fruit is applied to the skin as a cleansing cosmetic to soften and whiten it; The juice is used in many beauty products;
Height [1]  6.56 feet (2 m)
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Archipelago de Colon Biosphere Reserve 34336011 Galapagos Islands, Ecuador  
Central Gulf Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve 40530 United States  
Palava Protected Landscape Area V   Czech Republic  

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Golovinomyces orontii[6]
Podosphaera ferruginea[6]
Pseudoperonospora cubensis[6]
Stagonosporopsis cucurbitacearum[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 3Norrbom, A.L. 2004. Fruit fly (Tephritidae) host plant database. Version Nov, 2004.
♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 7NEW SITE REPORTS OF FOUR-HORNED ANTELOPE Tetracerus quadricornis (BLAINVILLE), Vinayak K. Patil and Sanjay G. Bhave, Tigerpaper, Vol. 36: No. 4 October-December 2009, p. 20-22
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0