- Armenian cucumber
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Armenian cucumber 
Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Eudicots (unranked): Rosids Order: Cucurbitales Family: Cucurbitaceae Genus: Cucumis Species: C. melo Variety: C. m. var. flexuosus Trinomial name Cucumis melo var. flexuosus
(L.) Naudin.The Armenian cucumber, Cucumis melo var. flexuosus, is a type of long, slender fruit which tastes like a cucumber and looks somewhat like a cucumber inside. It is actually a variety of muskmelon (C. melo), a species closely related to the cucumber (C. sativus). It is also known as the yard-long cucumber, snake cucumber, snake melon, kakri (in India), feggous or fakkous (in Morocco), acur (in Turkey), φακούσι (in Cyprus) and uri. It should not be confused with the snake gourds (Trichosanthes spp.). The skin is very thin, light green, and bumpless. It has no bitterness and the fruit is almost always used without peeling.
Armenian cucumbers for sale at a farmers' market in Cupertino, California.
The Armenian cucumber grows approximately 30 to 36 inches long. It grows equally well on the ground or on a trellis. Armenian cucumber plants prefer to grow in full sun for most of the day. The fruit is most flavorful when it is 12-15 inches long. Pickled Armenian cucumber is sold in middle-eastern markets as "Pickled Wild Cucumber".[1]
References
External links
- [2]: Plants for a Future database
- Multilingual taxonomic information from the University of Melbourne
- Fact sheet from the University of Florida (with photo)
Categories:- Cucurbitaceae
- Fruit vegetables
- Flora of Armenia
- Cucurbitales stubs
- Vegetable stubs
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