There is certainly truth to the fact that many common varieties of cucumber (Cucumis sativus) grow fruit that can be 18 inches long and vines that spread up to 8 feet wide. However, there are several ...

Cucumbers and melons are familiar items on our market stands. Botanists have now shown that both plants originated in Asia. The cucumber traces its ancestry to the slopes of the Himalayas, but, ...

“We love them,” says Pete Klein, a farmer in South Haven, Michigan. “Some people know them, some don’t. I sell all that I grow.” It should be said up front: The Mexican sour gherkin is technically not ...

India (Maharashtra State, Raigad District): fruits used as vegetable. (NB This vernacular name is identified elsewhere [see URL below] as Solena amplexicaulis (Lam ...