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CUCUMIS SATIVUS
LEAVES
WZSDWAAD
English: Cucumber
FRUITS
Spanish: Pepino
Estonian: Kurk
Portuguese: Pepino
Albanian: Kastravec
Leaves are big and
simple.
Catalan: Cogombre
Turkish: Salatalık
The fruit is an indehiscent
cylindrical berry with many
seeds. Cucumbers are glabrous,
and can be smooth or warty,
yellow or green, ranging from 5-
100cm long and weigh 50g to
4kg. Each plant produces up to
25 fruits.