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Cucumis
__NOTOC__ ''Cucumis'' is a genus of twining, tendril-bearing plants in the family Cucurbitaceae which includes the cucumber (''Cucumis sativus''), muskmelons (''Cucumis melo'', including cantaloupe and honeydew), the horned melon ('' Cucumis metuliferus''), and the West Indian gherkin ('' Cucumis anguria''). 30 species occur in Africa, and 25 occur in India, Southeast Asia, and Australia. However, '' Cucumis myriocarpus'' was introduced to Australia from Sub-Saharan Africa, and is regarded as an invasive species. Species , Plants of the World Online accepted 61 species: *'' Cucumis aculeatus'' Cogn. *'' Cucumis aetheocarpus'' (C.Jeffrey) Ghebret. & Thulin *'' Cucumis africanus'' L.f. *'' Cucumis althaeoides'' (Ser.) P.Sebastian & I.Telford *'' Cucumis anguria'' L. *'' Cucumis argenteus'' (Domin) P.Sebastian & I.Telford *'' Cucumis asper'' Cogn. *'' Cucumis baladensis'' Thulin *'' Cucumis bryoniifolius'' (Merxm.) Ghebret. & Thulin *'' Cucumis canoxyi'' Thulin & Al-Gifri *'' C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cucumis Africanus
__NOTOC__ ''Cucumis'' is a genus of vine, twining, tendril-bearing plants in the Family (biology), family Cucurbitaceae which includes the cucumber (''Cucumis sativus''), muskmelons (''Cucumis melo'', including cantaloupe and Honeydew (melon), honeydew), the horned melon (''Cucumis metuliferus''), and the West Indian gherkin (''Cucumis anguria''). 30 species occur in Africa, and 25 occur in India, Southeast Asia, and Australia. However, ''Cucumis myriocarpus'' was introduced to Australia from Sub-Saharan Africa, and is regarded as an invasive species. Species , Plants of the World Online accepted 61 species: *''Cucumis aculeatus'' Cogn. *''Cucumis aetheocarpus'' (C.Jeffrey) Ghebret. & Thulin *''Cucumis africanus'' L.f. *''Cucumis althaeoides'' (Ser.) P.Sebastian & I.Telford *''Cucumis anguria'' L. *''Cucumis argenteus'' (Domin) P.Sebastian & I.Telford *''Cucumis asper'' Cogn. *''Cucumis baladensis'' Thulin *''Cucumis bryoniifolius'' (Merxm.) Ghebret. & Thulin *''Cucumis canoxy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cucumis Aetheocarpus
__NOTOC__ ''Cucumis'' is a genus of vine, twining, tendril-bearing plants in the Family (biology), family Cucurbitaceae which includes the cucumber (''Cucumis sativus''), muskmelons (''Cucumis melo'', including cantaloupe and Honeydew (melon), honeydew), the horned melon (''Cucumis metuliferus''), and the West Indian gherkin (''Cucumis anguria''). 30 species occur in Africa, and 25 occur in India, Southeast Asia, and Australia. However, ''Cucumis myriocarpus'' was introduced to Australia from Sub-Saharan Africa, and is regarded as an invasive species. Species , Plants of the World Online accepted 61 species: *''Cucumis aculeatus'' Cogn. *''Cucumis aetheocarpus'' (C.Jeffrey) Ghebret. & Thulin *''Cucumis africanus'' L.f. *''Cucumis althaeoides'' (Ser.) P.Sebastian & I.Telford *''Cucumis anguria'' L. *''Cucumis argenteus'' (Domin) P.Sebastian & I.Telford *''Cucumis asper'' Cogn. *''Cucumis baladensis'' Thulin *''Cucumis bryoniifolius'' (Merxm.) Ghebret. & Thulin *''Cucumis canoxy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cucumis Aculeatus
__NOTOC__ ''Cucumis'' is a genus of vine, twining, tendril-bearing plants in the Family (biology), family Cucurbitaceae which includes the cucumber (''Cucumis sativus''), muskmelons (''Cucumis melo'', including cantaloupe and Honeydew (melon), honeydew), the horned melon (''Cucumis metuliferus''), and the West Indian gherkin (''Cucumis anguria''). 30 species occur in Africa, and 25 occur in India, Southeast Asia, and Australia. However, ''Cucumis myriocarpus'' was introduced to Australia from Sub-Saharan Africa, and is regarded as an invasive species. Species , Plants of the World Online accepted 61 species: *''Cucumis aculeatus'' Cogn. *''Cucumis aetheocarpus'' (C.Jeffrey) Ghebret. & Thulin *''Cucumis africanus'' L.f. *''Cucumis althaeoides'' (Ser.) P.Sebastian & I.Telford *''Cucumis anguria'' L. *''Cucumis argenteus'' (Domin) P.Sebastian & I.Telford *''Cucumis asper'' Cogn. *''Cucumis baladensis'' Thulin *''Cucumis bryoniifolius'' (Merxm.) Ghebret. & Thulin *''Cucumis canoxy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muskmelon
''Cucumis melo'', also known as melon, is a species of '' Cucumis'' that has been developed into many cultivated varieties. The fruit is a pepo. The flesh is either sweet or bland, with or without a musky aroma, and the rind can be smooth (such as honeydew), ribbed (such as European cantaloupe), wrinkled (such as casaba melon), or netted (such as muskmelon). In North America, the sweet-flesh varieties are often collectively called muskmelon, including the musky netted-rind varieties and the inodorous smooth-rind varieties, and cantaloupe usually means the former type. However, muskmelon in a narrow sense only refers to the musky netted-rind type, while the true cantaloupe is the European type with ribbed and often warty rind that is seldom grown in North America. The origin of melons is not known. Research has revealed that seeds and rootstocks were among the goods traded along the caravan routes of the Ancient World. Some botanists consider melons native to the Levant and Egyp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cucumis Anguria
''Cucumis anguria'', commonly known as maroon cucumber, West Indian gherkin, maxixe, burr gherkin, cackrey, and West Indian gourd, is a vine that is indigenous to Africa, but has become naturalized in the New World, and is cultivated in many places. It is similar and related to the common cucumber ('' C. sativus'') and its cultivars are known as gherkins. Description ''Cucumis anguria'' is a thinly stemmed, herbaceous vine scrambling up to 3 meters long. Fruits (4–5 cm × 3–4 cm) grow on long stalks, and are ovoid to oblong. The fruits are covered with long hairs over a surface of spines or wart-like bumps. The inner flesh is pallid to green. Distribution Although naturalized in many parts of the New World, ''Cucumis anguria'' is indigenous only to Africa, in the following countries: Angola; Botswana; the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Malawi; Mozambique; Namibia; South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga); Eswatini; Tanzania; Zambia; and Zimbabwe. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cucumber
Cucumber (''Cucumis sativus'') is a widely-cultivated creeping vine plant in the Cucurbitaceae family that bears usually cylindrical fruits, which are used as culinary vegetables.Cucumber " ''''. 9982019. Considered an annual plant, there are three main varieties of cucumber—slicing, pickling, and seedless—within which several |
Melon
A melon is any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae with sweet, edible, and fleshy fruit. The word "melon" can refer to either the plant or specifically to the fruit. Botanically, a melon is a kind of berry, specifically a "pepo". The word ''melon'' derives from Latin ', which is the latinization of the Greek (''mēlopepōn''), meaning "melon",. itself a compound of (''mēlon''), "apple, treefruit (''of any kind'')" and (''pepōn''), amongst others "a kind of gourd or melon". Many different cultivars have been produced, particularly of cantaloupes. History Melons originated in Africa or in the hot valleys of Southwest Asia, especially Iran and India, from where they gradually began to appear in Europe toward the end of the Western Roman Empire. Melons are known to have been grown by the ancient Egyptians. However, recent discoveries of melon seeds dated between 1350 and 1120 BCE in Nuragic sacred wells have shown that melons were first brought to Europe b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cucumis Althaeoides
''Cucumis althaeoides'' is a vine in the family Cucurbitaceae that is native to parts of Northern Australia. Description ''Cucumis althaeoides'' is a trailing or climbing perennial vine that is monoecious, and most of its vegetative parts are covered with hairs or bristles. Its Plant stem, stems range up to long, being about in diameter. The stems are ribbed and annually sprout from a perennating rootstock. The tendrils that ''althaeoides'' use to climb are simple and range up to long. Its Leaf, leaves are oval shaped or Glossary of botanical terms#lanceolate, lanceolate and are generally long and wide, with a Petiole (botany), leaf stalk up to . It has unisexual inflorescences, or clustered flowers. The fruit of ''Cucumis altheoides'' are spherical, in diameter, and are a pale green with darker green linear markings. At maturity the fruit turns more red, with 9 to 25 seeds. The seeds are oval shaped and long.Dr. Mark Eldridge (2017) ''Proposal to list the climbing herb Cuc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cucumis Myriocarpus
''Cucumis myriocarpus'', the gooseberry cucumber, gooseberry gourd, paddy melon, Mallee Pear or prickly paddy melon is a prostrate or climbing annual herb native to tropical and southern Africa.Borger, John, "Paddy and Afghan Melons", July 2005, retrieved on 3 March 2012 It has small, round, yellow-green or green-striped fruit with soft spines, small yellow flowers and deeply lobed, light green leaves. The melon occurs in disturbed soil and cleared or bare areas, and thrives on summer moisture. The fruit and foliage are toxic due to the presence of cucurbitacin. The plant is toxic to humans as well as to horses, sheep, cattle and pigs and it has been associated with stock deaths.Pakskowska, Grazyna, "Cucumis Myriocarpus Naudin/Prickly Paddy Melon", description on Florabasretrieved on 3 March 2012 It has been used by humans as an Vomiting, emetic.McKenzie R.A. et al. (1988). Prickly paddy melon (''Cucumis myriocarpus'') poisoning of cattle. ''Australian Veterinary Journal'' 65(6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cucumis Metuliferus
''Cucumis metuliferus'', commonly called the African horned cucumber, horned melon, spiked melon, jelly melon, kiwano, or cuke-a-saurus is an annual vine in the cucumber and melon family, ''Cucurbitaceae''. Its fruit has horn (anatomy), horn-like spine (botany), spines, hence the name "horned melon". The ripe fruit has orange skin and lime green, jelly-like flesh. ''C. metuliferus'' is native to Southern Africa. It is found in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Angola. Kiwano is a traditional food plant in Africa. Along with the Gemsbok cucumber (''Acanthosicyos naudinianus'') and Tsamma (Citron melon) it is one of the few sources of water during the dry season in the Kalahari Desert. ''Parc de Khal-agadi, pas si désert'', in Science & Vie n° 1130, November 2011, pp. 18-21. In northern Zimbabwe it is called ''gaka'' or ''gakachika'', and is primarily used as a snack or salad, and rarely for decoration. It can be eaten at any stage of ripening. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cantaloupe
The cantaloupe, rockmelon (Australia and New Zealand, although cantaloupe is used in some states of Australia), sweet melon, or spanspek (Southern Africa) is a melon that is a variety of the muskmelon species (''Cucumis melo'') from the family Cucurbitaceae. Cantaloupes range in weight from . Originally, ''cantaloupe'' referred only to the non-netted, orange-fleshed melons of Europe, but today may refer to any orange-fleshed melon of the ''C. melo'' species. Etymology and origin The name ''cantaloupe'' was derived in the 18th century via French from The Cantus Region of Italian , which was formerly a papal county seat near Rome, after the fruit was introduced there from Armenia. It was first mentioned in English literature in 1739. The cantaloupe most likely originated in a region from South Asia to Africa. It was later introduced to Europe, and around 1890, became a commercial crop in the United States. ''Melon'' derived from use in Old French as during the 13th century, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cucumis Argenteus
''Cucumis argenteus'' is a vine in the family Cucurbitaceae that is native to Western Australia through parts of the Pilbara and northeastern Goldfields-Esperance regions. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q17429933 Cucumis, argenteus Plants described in 2012 Flora of Western Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
