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Cucumbers and gherkins are a group of cucurbitaceous vegetables that are mainly used as salad vegetables. Cucumbers are large fruits while gherkins are small fruits. Scientific name of cucumber is Cucumis sativus. Gherkins are known as 'small cucumbers' as it belongs to the same family as cucumber and its scientific name is same as that of cucumber i.e. Cucumis sativus, but cultivar is different.
Cucumbers: Cucumbers are mainly used as summer season salad vegetables. Cucumber fruits have cooling and strengthening properties and also capable of quenching thirst during summer months.
Gherkins: Gherkins are small, prickly, cylindrical green fruits which are with thin green rinds and white flesh. Small immature fruits of gherkins are used for pickling and hence it is commonly called as 'pickling cucumbers'.
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Cucurbits: An Introduction
Cucurbitaceous crops are also known as ‘gourds and melons.’ These are a large group of summer vegetables belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae or the cucurbit family. Approximately 850-900 recognised plant species across 100-110 genera are present in the cucurbit family. All of them are grown as tropical and subtropical vegetables. Prominent members of cucurbit family are pumpkins, squashes, water melons, musk melons and cantaloupes, bitter gourds, spine gourds or teasle gourds, sponge gourds, ridge gourds, snake gourds, ivy gourds or little gourds, pointed gourds, ash gourds (white gourds or wax gourds), calabash gourds or bottle gourds, cucumbers and gherkins, horned melons or kiwano, and courgettes. Among these cucurbits, water melons, musk melons and cantaloupes are considered as fruits from consumption point of view as these cucurbitaceous fruits are sweet in taste and are mostly suitable to be used as fruits rather than as vegetables.
Taxonomy: Detailed taxonomic classification of popular cucurbits is as follows:
cucumbers-87837_960_720.jpgFigure 1: A Cucurbit Plant
Cucumbers and Gherkins: An Introduction
Cucumbers and gherkins are a group of cucurbitaceous vegetables that are mainly used as salad vegetables. Cucumbers are large fruits while gherkins are small fruits. Scientific name of cucumber is Cucumis sativus. Gherkins are known as ‘small cucumbers’ as it belongs to the same family as cucumber and its scientific name is same as that of cucumber i.e. Cucumis sativus, but cultivar is different.
Cucumbers: Cucumbers are mainly used as summer season salad vegetables. Cucumber fruits have cooling and strengthening properties and also capable of quenching thirst during summer months.
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