2. Cucumber in Cucurbitaceae is an annual herbaceous climber. The stems are creeping, green, pentagonal, with dense bristles, tendrils on the stems, elliptic leaves, alternate, dioecious, and yellow corolla. The fruit is unique, like sea cucumber, with hard, uneven skin and sharp thorns. The epidermis is bright green in the growing period, golden yellow when it is fully mature, with delicate and juicy meat and sweet taste. The seeds are flat and rectangular, and the seed coat is light yellow. 1000-grain weight 10g, single melon yield 127-24 1 grain.
3. Native to kalahari desert, Africa. New Zealand, the United States, Australia, Germany, China and other places have introduced and cultivated. Zanthoxylum bungeanum is a typical short-day crop with strong disease resistance, heat resistance and cold resistance, which is suitable for growing in dry and hot climate.
4. Cucumber is delicate and seedy, gelatinous like cucumber, sweet, and tastes like a mixture of banana, lemon and cucumber.