Garden cucumber
Cucumis sativus L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 33 cm
- wide
- 1.7 m
Cucurbitaceae
Formerly Cucumis esculentus, Cucumis hardwickii, Cucumis muricatus, Cucumis rumphii, and 2 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Himalaya to China (Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi) and N. ThailandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 20 cm to 46 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 91 cm to 2.4 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (10)
- Chinese
- 胡瓜, 黄瓜, 黄瓜叶
- Asturian
- pepinu
- Catalan
- Cogombre
- Czech
- okurka setá
- Welsh
- cucumer
- Finnish
- vihanneskurkku
- Japanese
- キュウリ
- Dutch
- Komkommer
- Slovenian
- navadna kumara
- Simplified Chinese
- 胡瓜, 黄瓜
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Cucumis sativus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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