Armenian Cucumber
Cucumis melo
About
Muskmelon (Cucumis melo) is a species of melon that has been developed into many cultivated varieties. These include smooth-skinned varieties such as honeydew, Crenshaw, and casaba, and different netted cultivars (cantaloupe, Persian melon, and Santa Claus or Christmas melon). The Armenian cucumber is also a variety of muskmelon, but its shape, taste, and culinary uses more closely resemble those of a cucumber. The large number of cultivars in this species approaches that found in wild cabbage,...
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae
In the kitchen
In the kitchen, the Armenian cucumber is utilized in ways that closely resemble the culinary uses of a traditional cucumber, despite botanically being a variety of muskmelon.
Sources: Grangery, en.wikipedia.org
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Armenian Cucumber
- Slug
- armenian-cucumber
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae
- Genus
- Cucumis
- Species
- melo
- Category
- Cucumber
- Wikidata QID
- Q81602
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 48
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